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Hybrid Cloud For Dummies

by Judith Hurwitz, Marcia Kaufman, Fern Halper, Dan Kirsch
June 2012
Beginner
360 pages
10h 6m
English
For Dummies
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Exploring Why Companies Adopt Server Virtualization

Companies adopt virtualization for a number of reasons. As stated previously, virtualization helps to consolidate infrastructure, which can lead to a number of business benefits including decreasing the costs associated with maintaining a lot of servers. Virtualization is appealing to companies for technical reasons, too, including the fact that it might help in business continuity, disaster recovery, and resource availability. We delve into some of these benefits in the following sections.

Why companies adopt server virtualization

Companies find virtualization attractive for a number of reasons:

check.png Consolidation efficiencies: Migrating physical servers to virtual machines reduces the number of physical servers and the costs associated with maintaining them. Virtualization improves space utilization in data centers, and on the application side, helps to remove application compatibility issues because applications are isolated on virtual machines. Since there are now more applications on a machine, this virtualization helps to more fully utilize servers.

check.png Cost reduction: Combining server virtualization and consolidation boosts resource utilization, and a consolidated data center reduces power requirements. A smaller energy footprint ...

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