What problem does virtualization address?
Cost. A typical IT organization can spend up 80 percent of its budget simply managing existing systems and applications.1 In the past, to simplify deployment and reduce potential software conflicts, IT organizations would often host just one application per server. This led to large numbers of underutilized servers. There are 150 times more servers today compared to a decade ago and these servers are 10 times more powerful. Virtualization helps to take advantage of this extra power by consolidating multiple applications and operating systems onto a single platform, thus increasing server utilization and reducing management, power and cooling requirements. Virtualization also allows for flexible allocation of resources to handle unexpected workloads.
