Virtualisation is a huge part of today’s data centres. The operating efficiencies offered by virtualization allow organisations to dramatically reduce the operations effort and power consumption.

IT priorities are changing fast, and not simply because of a challenging economy. More attention must be paid to IT expenditures in this economic climate, but cost savings across the IT budget have long been a concern to customers. What makes this goal more challenging is that while boardroom business management demands cost savings, they have also grown increasingly dependent on IT infrastructure for both day-to-day operations as well as competitive response.

Instead of being merely a support technology for back-end operations, IT has evolved in the last ten years to be a crucial factor across a variety of core business scenarios, including servicing increased customer demand, competitive marketing, reacting to mergers and acquisitions, and more. At the same time that IT managers are tasked with decreasing their expenditures, the successful IT executive is also looking for ways to increase agility and improve response times to better react to changing business needs. Decreasing costs is certainly one priority, but increasing value is just as important.