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Applying Virtualization Concepts in Enterprise IT

By Sambit Kumar Dikshit, Sourav Mazumder & Kiran NG

Virtualization is not just hardware, server and operating system consolidation. There are quite a few places where application of virtualization concepts can bring significant value additions to enterprise. This paper tries to highlight those concepts, techniques and their benefits by illustrating various scenarios and use cases.

Introduction

Virtualization is fast emerging as a core building block for many of the IT infrastructure to optimize physical hardware assets (Level-1), server, storage and networking (Level-2) assets in terms of physical space, power, enhanced capacity, elasticity, scaling. These steps have already formed the basis ...

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