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Top Ten Considerations for Choosing a Server Virtualization Technology

Overview This Parallels white paper is a valuable decision-support resource that offers guidance for evaluating competing server virtualization solutions. It opens with a review of the three types of virtualization technologies available today: hardware virtualization, para-virtualization, and OS virtualization. The paper explains the basic concepts behind each approach and provides a detailed list of ten considerations to take into account as you research which virtualization technology is right for your organization. It even provides a handy worksheet that you can fill in for an at-a-glance comparison of the solutions you evaluate.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Parallels	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2008	Downloads	171
Format	White Papers
Topics	Cost Control - Risk Mgmt., File and Network Servers, IT Reliability, Security Management, Infrastructure Management, Server Consolidation, Data Center, High Performance Computing, Resources Mgmt.

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