The Technical Case
A virtualized environment increases IT flexibility because a varied range of resources can be added, changed, or moved as needed to meet the changes in business demand. Resources can be scaled to either increase or decrease based on changing workloads and patterns. As a by-product, virtualization also improves IT's level of resiliency by simplifying backup, failover, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
Test and Development
Virtualization can maximize test hardware, reducing costs, improving life-cycle management, and improving test coverage. Nearly all test and development machines are good candidates for virtualization, unless you are performing specific production workload tests.
Virtualization of the test ...
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