Introduction
Over the years as power costs have soared and data center space has become scarce and expensive to acquire, enterprises and small businesses have been looking for ways to decrease their data center footprints as well as reduce the overall costs of operating an IT infrastructure. As the number of different applications being deployed in data centers grows, efficiency in deployment, management, and resource consumption is critical. Imagine having to deploy a new piece of physical hardware for each of these applications—or, even worse, each tier of these applications. Well, that wasn’t too long ago. Racking, stacking, and installing the OS took a day to complete. The procurement and approval processes alone took weeks. How did we ever ...
