| Realizing The Business Benefits Of Application And Server Virtualization |
| Thursday, 15 June 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Do you believe virtualization is the answer to squeezing more value out of IT? Depending on whom you talk to, it is either over-hyped or the silver bullet. Like most advanced technologies, the answer lies somewhere in between. However, you cannot deny the strong growth of virtualization technologies. Already close to 100 percent of the Fortune 1000 use some form of application virtualization. Indeed, aAccording to IDC, seventy-five percent of all companies with 500+ employees are in the midst of deploying virtual servers. While there are multiple virtualization technologies available, I will focus on application virtualization technologies such as Citrix Presentation Server and server virtualization technologies such as EMC VMware. Whether you are a newbie to virtualization or are knee deep in it, this article should help you understand—and more effectively deal with—the challenges you are experiencing now or could encounter in the future. Application Virtualization Application virtualization is the new fancy trendy name for server-based computing. However, instead of installing applications on desktops, the applications are installed in a server farm for secure, remote access. Server virtualization allows you to take multiple physical servers and create the same number of virtual servers, or “machines,” on one host physical server. Server Virtualization For insights into challenges in the server virtualization world, I spoke with Dave McCrory, an independent virtualization consultant and co-author of “Advanced Server Virtualization.” Read the whole article here.
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