Drive Even Greater Efficiency With Virtualization
- Source:
- HP
- Published:
- Apr 22, 2010
- Pages:
- 11
Congratulations on the consolidation and efficiency savings you have achieved thus far through infrastructure virtualization. But have you fully achieved your long-term objectives? Utilization can be ratcheted up further and operational efficiencies can be dramatically improved by adapting your processes and adopting new ones that are specific to managing a virtual infrastructure. If your administrative tasks haven't changed dramatically since you instituted virtualization, now is the time to make these moves. In January 2010, Hewlett-Packard commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the infrastructure and operational practices used for the virtual server environments of small and medium-size businesses (SMBs).1 This research confirmed prior Forrester findings that as organizations optimize and converge their server, storage, and networking infrastructure and advance their processes for operating their virtual environments, they can achieve significantly greater efficiencies and cost savings.
