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| | Driving forces |
The main driving forces for virtualization today |
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| The virtualization approaches presented above have unquestionably unleashed a paradigm shift in the architecture and deployment concepts of corporate backend IT. This shift is expected to continue and to bring about fundamental changes in the way IT is managed and the way it creates and delivers value and benefits. |
The new paradigm is driven by a series of striking economic arguments |
- Immediate TCO advantage
- Significant reduction in hardware and software components
- Reduction in operating costs
- Automated administration
- Optimal utilization of IT infrastructure resources
- Long-term investment protection resulting primarily from standardization of infrastructure components
- Radically improved agility
- Reduced time-to-operation for new business opportunities
- Flexible adaptation of resources for business processes according to current needs
- Abstraction of infrastructure details in virtual environments
- Continuous satisfaction of SLAs defined by the end user
- Improved availability of business processes
- Guaranteed quality of service
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Virtualization at a glance |
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