Virtualisation is a technique that enables organisations to pool their IT resources into one flexible and manageable entity. This executive overview highlights the key challenges of virtualisation so you can put in place a winning strategy that will enable your business to achieve the aforementioned benefits.
The IT virtualisation product market is expanding rapidly in both reach and range. On the client side, established desktop and application virtualisation products are being joined by new offerings that are pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved in this space.
One of the fundamental technological dynamics of the IT industry has been to push the limits of technological performance further and further. Companies have come to expect regular step changes in price and performance of their fundamental IT and will readily invest in them to extract business advantage.
The virtualisation of computing resources has become a growing trend within IT departments because of the ability it offers to consolidate, reuse and extend physical computing resources in the enterprise.
Over the course of 2007, the challenges facing IT departments and the servers that they deploy throughout their businesses has changed subtly. No longer is it enough for IT departments to deploy the best or most appropriate technological server solution; they also have to look at the wider business context of server technology deployment.
Worldwide server shipments for the second quarter of 2007 increased 2.7% over the same quarter last year, and worldwide server sales for the same period climbed 5.1%, said analyst Gartner.
Backup and replication software are powerful tools used to protect data against loss due to hardware failure, natural disasters, and other problems. Features like encryption, key management, compression, data de-duplication, WAN support and content indexing are frequently found in enterprise backup products. The product snapshots in this chapter highlight key specifications for a cross-section of enterpsie-class backup software products.
