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Virtualization: Transforming the IT Landscape

Overview This white paper discusses the evolution of VMware virtualization technologies and explains why the more than one million VMware virtual machines in service today are both highly stable and energy-efficient, having cumulatively saved over 5 billion Kilowatt hours of power. The paper goes on to review other important benefits of virtualization, including:

Increased CPU utilization
Elimination of over-provisioning
Enablement of a true utility model for managing shared hardware
Simplified capacity management and hardware maintenance
Improved efficiency and availability through agentless backup

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	VMware	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Data Center, ROI - TCO, IT Reliability, Server Consolidation, Virtualization

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