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Published on: August 18, 2009
Type of content: EBOOK
Format: Unknown
Length: 11 pages
Price: FREE

Overview:

When enterprise administrators scrutinize server configurations, questions of which applications are most critical to daily operations spur the discussion. Once a key application is identified, conversation loops back to the operating system and any underlying hardware needed to support adequate performance. Many organizations now face serious space, power, cooling and cost constraints that make it difficult—sometimes impossible—to expand physical servers. To relieve that situation, virtualization technology allows more workloads to run on fewer servers. But this imparts data center administrators with a slew of challenges as well as benefits.