138 Green Computing
That way you get all the benefits of both approaches, without that much addi-
tional effort from just using one or the other.
Another factor that makes a data center green is virtualization. Virtualization
separates what you do to manage computing resources from the actual physi-
cal resources at hand. For instance, a software-based virtual machine allows
you to host several application servers and/or Web servers on a single physical
machine—or to host a single application server on several physical machines, if
demand requires it.
Virtualization seeks to enable you to view your computing resources as a
single pool, ready to serve your software, storage, and processing demands as
needed. This avoids duplication of equipmen ...