The Evolution of the Datacenter and the Need for a Converged Infrastructure
Executive Summary
In many enterprise datacenters, virtualization and blade computing have become key technologies deployed by the IT department in an effort to consolidate resources and cut costs while still providing increasing service-level agreements (SLAs) and supporting an expanding workload base.
The continued adoption of virtualization in the datacenter has profoundly changed how IT delivers services. As a consequence of virtualization, IT needs to adopt management tools and automation throughout the datacenter. This Whitepaper looks at the challenges and benefits of moving to virtualization.
