Virtualisation is one of the key answers to the industry’s IT
challenges of spiralling energy costs, demand for space, server
sprawl, system complexity and increasing costs. It promises to
transform IT infrastructure in terms of its ability to deliver
agility, resilience and cost reduction.
It is widely predicted (Gartner, IDC et al) that virtualisation
will grow significantly over the next few years. Although today,
the focus is server virtualisation, growth will not be limited to
that alone but will extend to include high capex applications,
network, storage and the desktop.
The vision of a real-time IT infrastructure is compelling and
promises to deliver services to the business with the same
availability as utilities. Cost reductions will be achieved through
virtualisation and consolidation; and autonomic behaviour will be
pushed down to all levels of the infrastructure.
This White Paper looks at the business drivers and technology
advances that will provide the foundation for high availability,
dynamic scalability and manageability of infrastructures across
enterprise applications, creating IT agility.
Download the whitepaper here