Source: HP/AMD

Date: December 2010

Type: White Paper

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Overview: IT organizations today must meet ever-growing business ex-pectations and are under pressure to provide high-quality 24x7 services. At the same time, there exists deep emphasis on reining in costs and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Many organizations are looking to consolidation and virtualization to save the day on all fronts. Unfortunately, legacy servers lack flexibility and have limited I/O and memory capacity, and thus cannot scale to meet the new demands of the business.

What has gotten us to this state? Economic pressures over the last few years have prevented needed investments. Reporting on an industry survey, CIO Insight noted that more than half of the IT managers surveyed said their 2009 budgets were lower than 2008, while roughly another quarter had no increase. For 2010, 28 percent expected smaller budgets than last year, and another 45 percent said they would not rise. However, there are indications that the situation is about to change.

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