Virtualization: The Architectural Foundation for Dynamic IT
Summary
The trend is clear: IT and business professionals will continue to face more devices, services, changes and demands in the business – not less. The challenge is to manage this complexity to achieve agility while keeping costs under control. Dynamic systems technologies help IT and business professionals meet this challenge. And in order to create a dynamic system, companies need a virtualization strategy to mobilize the resources of the infrastructure to meet dynamic business demands. The resulting benefits to IT and business professionals include faster levels of service, freeing up critical resources to take on bigger business challenges, reducing costs and ultimately achieving competitive advantage through business agility. This paper offers a strategic picture of virtualized infrastructure as a whole. It goes on to outline how to get started with virtualization technologies as part of the Dynamic Systems Initiative.
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Why Virtualization Matters to Business and IT Professionals
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| • | People and Process are Essential Ingredients in a Virtualization Strategy |
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Unifying the Conversations about Virtualized Technology
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DSI Utilizing Virtualization
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You Can Start Today
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Call to Action
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