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What Virtualization Technology is Most Important and Why?
“Virtualization" is a broadly encompasses applications, servers, clients, networks, storage, management and other areas. Each of these employs a different combination of key technologies. Which of these should I focus on the most and why?
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Virtualization is the art of creating an abstraction layer between the physical constraints of infrastructure while maintaining an equal or better end-user experience. The abstraction layer provides greater flexibility for companies in order to adapt to changing market situations, new IT service requirements, regulatory compliance, budget cuts and other challenges.
So therefore the virtualization technology you should focus on are the ones that have the greatest beneficial impact on your business.
That being said I would say focus on storage virtualization. Data is everything. Not only documents, databases and applications but with virtualized server environments data is also infrastructure. What you can do with your data is what you can do with your infrastructure and ultimately what you can do with your business. Cloud storage and grid storage technology is rapidly developing and will change the way we look at data capacity and data management.
Stephen,
Jan has made a very important point: the virtualization technology that you need to focus on is the one that will bring you the most benefit.
Certainly, storage virtualization is a very necessary component of a broader virtualization strategy, because it will help you consolidate and effectively manage most of your other virtualization efforts. Rather than consider storage virtualization as "most important", recognize that it is foundational to other technology projects.
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