Source: VMware/HP

Date: March 2010

Type: White Paper

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Overview: Data centers around the world are wrestling with a common set of challenges. Over half are not optimized for agility. Most are not agile enough to easily respond to changing client demands or unexpected execution problems. In many data centers, a good portion of the IT budget is still trapped in maintenance and operations, due to aging equipment and a reliance on labor intensive manual process. Many data centers are power and space constrained, with a sizable part of the IT budget going to data center power and cooling, which now exceeds the cost of new systems.

That’s a problem because now, more than ever before, IT is expected to quickly deliver new services that drive business growth, while working to cut costs. How do you meet these expectations? In short, you need new, more advanced technologies and services that break down technology silos so you can easily pool, share, and allocate resources. What’s more, these new technologies and services need to be easier to buy, quicker to deploy, and easier to manage—so you can extract greater returns from your investments.

To change the economics of IT, your organization needs to move beyond hard-wired legacy technology silos and create a business-ready infrastructure that is agile and dynamic. Virtualization is a key to these efforts. It enables resources to be pooled, shared, and quickly allocated.

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