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IT organizations have new means of addressing traditional challenges like dealing with rapidly escalating infrastructure requirements, increasing complexity, and the need to protect legacy investments within a changing framework. One common challenge is server sprawl, which, if not brought under control, can require large amounts of facilities and support resources, contributing to increased operating expenses.

Revolutionary advances in compute power from multi-core computing and architectural enhancements from the Intel® Core^TM microarchitecture provide enhanced performance. Server consolidation (SCON) by means of virtualization is a key industry trend that helps take full economic and technical advantage of that performance, but the complexity associated with proper implementation leaves many companies faced with uncertain strategies.

Because of that uncertainty, organizations may delay virtualization projects, missing opportunities they might have realized if they had acted sooner. As with any new area of technology, best practices are not widely understood, which makes the expertise of industry leaders at all levels of the solution stack all the more valuable.