The benefits of virtualization

By employing virtualization in your IT infrastructure, you are enabling your IT organization to take advantage of the "pay as you go" model of computing, providing just the amount of processing power and the specific applications that you need, when you need them. As a result, you don't pay for capacity you don't use and you don't buy storage you don't need. Virtualization also allows organizations to share computing capacity across all business systems, reducing the size of the data center needed. Virtualization now is extending to storage and networking by allowing companies to share storage and networking resources in the same manner. What's more, virtualization also helps companies comply with the myriad regulations for data retention while improving disaster recovery capabilities.

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