Virtual machines have dramatically transformed the way IT organizations approach the computing architecture. Initially employed to provide greater efficiency, server virtualization has quickly revealed that its true benefits are in building an agile data center where resources can be started and stopped as necessary, files are transferred more easily, and disaster recovery and failover are simpler and more reliable. In other words, server virtualization encompasses everything that is characteristic of the modern, dynamic data center and cloud environment.
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Storage: The Achilles' Heel of Data Center Virtualization
Posted by: Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy January 11, 2011 05:00 AMVirtual machines have dramatically transformed the way IT organizations approach the computing architecture. Initially employed to provide greater efficiency, server virtualization has quickly revealed that its true benefits are in building an agile data center where resources can be started and stopped as necessary, files are transferred more easily, and disaster recovery and failover are simpler and more reliable. In other words, server virtualization encompasses everything that is characteristic of the modern, dynamic data center and cloud environment.