Infrastructure Virtualisation
Technology Management and Strategy Reports
Mike Thompson, Richard Edwards, Rob Hailstone, Roy Illsley, Sue Clarke, Tim Jennings - Published 26/09/2007
The convergence of three significant factors in the global economy have created the conditions that make IT virtualisation a technology that will become the dominant technology in data centres within the next two to three years: The need for organisations to reduce its energy consumption, which enables it to also reduce its carbon footprint; the increased importance of the ability to respond to market opportunities faster; and the increased shift towards automation as a means of reducing operational cost