This expert e-book presents insights into navigating the crowded virtualization marketplace. 

This expert e-book examines the players in today's virtualization market and the ways in which the market continues to grow and evolve. 

In this expert resource, learn the crucial steps to take to avoid performance and availability roadblocks when virtualizing your mission-critical applications to ensure the best possible service delivery. 

This virtualization e-guide discusses the hidden traps that threaten today's virtualized data centers and offers advice for overcoming obstacles such as virtual machine sprawl,  balancing resource provisioning, and improving VM lifecycle management. Gain expert tips for maximizing your virtualization potential. 

Virtualization may be well underway, but it doesn't mean new challenges won't arise as you continue to navigate your initiative. This expert e-zine offers detailed guidance for achieving the right balance in your virtual data center and presents key findings concerning your peers' consolidation objectives for 2012. 

In Chapter 6 of the Advanced Virtualization e-book, Mike Laverick outlines some of the benefits that desktop virtualization has over server-based computing models. He also details a few drawbacks of VDI and makes predictions on how the market will respond to further improve desktop virtualization. 

Virtualization technology isn't complete without a hypervisor. This final chapter of the Introduction to Virtualization e-book explains some hypervisor basics—highlighting the differences between bare-metal and hosted hypervisors—and lists some features that you should look for when selecting one for your virtual environment.