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.
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.
The growth of server blade technology has increased rapidly over the last couple of years. There are many reasons as to why this is so, not least among them the financial (savings) gains that can be made.
Cutting edge techniques such as virtualisation can help IT departments make the most out of their IT estate. But there’s an assumption here that the estates in question will be continuously available to users.
There is no doubt that one of the key topics in the IT industry right now is virtualisation.
In short, virtualisation is a technique that enables organisations to pool their essential IT resources into one flexible and manageable entity.