Virtualization for Consolidation and Optimization of System Resources

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 costs due to hardware and maintenance of hardware.