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Virtualization for Consolidation and Optimization of System Resources

Author: Dan Kusnetzky, Principal Analyst - Kusnetzky Group

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Overview
Organizations have many goals in mind when selecting virtualization technology. Depending upon the organization's goal, different layers of virtualization technology present the best solution. Here's a quick review of goals some organizations have for creating a virtualized environment: 
+ Agility - Optimize use of systems, deal with a rapidly changing environment, reduce time and complexity of installation 
+ Availability or reliability - keeping applications and services online and available in order to avoid the costs of downtime 
+ Consolidation - Merging applications or services onto a small number of systems to avoid the 
+ Scalability - Get more work done by applying more systems allowing more work to be done, revenues to be increased and more FreeCell games to be completed in a given unit of time 
+ Unified management environment - Manage a number of systems as a single entity to simply management and reduce the costs due to administration and operations

How organizations came to need a consolidation strategy, what virtualization tools are available to address this need and which of those tools might be best will be considered in this paper.

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