Virtualization Benefits
Explore the benefits users and organizations realize through the adoption and implementation of Virtualization. Includes financial impact, organizational benefits and much more.
| Selling Virtualization |
| "Aside from things like reducing infrastructure costs, dispense with theoretical-sounding talk of cloud computing and stick with a metric anyone can understand: time. A virtualized environment takes hardware out of the equation, and therefore dramatically reduces the time associated with hardware acquisition, setup and maintenance of business applications. A business application can be provisioned, relocated or have its resource allocation changed in minutes, where in the past days of productivity might be lost. While these time savings may seem trivial, think of a massive enterprise software implementation where a couple of days of lost time is literally worth tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Virtualization allows for new testing environments to be created, deployed and recreated in moments, rather than days that would have had users and consultants twiddling their thumbs while IT did its work. Old applications can be moved to new hardware, and virtual servers quickly put back into play in case of disaster." |
| Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group |
| Virtualization Initiatives in the AHE |
| Traditional benefits of virtualization include: - Server consolidation - "Green" IT - reduced power and cooling - Reduced hardware costs Virtualization benefits have expanded to include: - Increased availability/business continuity and Disaster recovery - Maximizing hardware resources - Reducing administration and labor costs - Efficient application and desktop software deployment and maintenance - Reduced time for server provisioning - Increased security on the desktop client level - Dynamic and extensible infrastructure to rapidly address new business requirements |
| US Department of Energy |
| Virtualization and Service Automation |
| Virtualization benefits: - Reduced cost for power and cooling. More workloads per hardware chassis means fewer servers to power and keep cool. - Right-sizing of resources for workloads. Yesterday's data center best practices recommended similar hardware compositions whenever possible due to cost savings. Yet this practice resulted in a wasteful under-subscription of hardware resources for light workloads. - Elimination of legacy hardware. Data centers are collections of hardware that was procured for various projects over time, yet maintaining that legacy hardware over extended periods grows to become a liability. Virtualization provides a mechanism to retain the service atop the hardware platform while eliminating the hardware itself. - Reduced total cost of ownership. Improvements in the ability to spin up new services and manage those that already exist reduce the management cost of doing business for IT. These improvements arrive through significant improvements to the speed in which common IT tasks can be accomplished. - Enhanced agility. Deploying new services and scaling those that already exist grows faster once virtualized due to virtualization's intrinsic ability to rapidly deploy configurations across devices and environments. |
| Greg Shields, Realtime Publishers |
