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How can
Virtualization help you in 2009?
"Virtualization helps organizations to cut
costs, better utilize assets and reduce
implementation and management time and
complexity, all of which are crucial in this
economic environment,” said Alan Dayley,
research director at Gartner. "Server
virtualization management technology in
particular is designed to reduce TCO, reduce
associated availability risk, and improve
quality of service. In addition, building
more manageability into infrastructure
components provides technology suppliers
with an additional source of revenue and a
basis for competitive differentiation.”
Worldwide virtualization software revenue will increase 43 per cent
from $1.9 billion in 2008 to $2.7 billion in 2009, according to Gartner. Global
virtualization penetration is on pace to reach 20 per cent in 2009 from 12 per
cent in 2008. Its adoption within the IT organization is driven by the need to
reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO), enhance the agility and speed of
deployment of IT needs and minimize carbon
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How can Consolidation
help you in 2009?
Consolidation and virtualization are very similar techniques that have the same
big payoffs. Virtualization allows a variety of software applications running on
differing Operating Systems (Windows, Linux etc.) to share common hardware by
using hypervisor software. Consolidation is the process of replacing multiple
applications running on separate hardware with an integrated suite of similar
applications running on a single hardware platform.
An area that has seen considerable attention is storage. Shared storage
technologies such as SANs, NAS and iSCSI are driving the cost this once exotic
realm to be affordable in the enterprise. Why replicate separate RAID 5 disk
arrays in each server when a single central array can save money? This trend is
an excellent complement to both Virtualization and server hardware consolidation
such as Blade Servers.
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Focus: Virtualization & Networking
The benefits of virtualization are not limited just to servers. Networks
have long enjoyed similar capabilities using Virtual LAN technology that allows
multiple VLANs to share one physical network infrastructure. And just to makes
things even more interesting, a few security firms such as Fortinet support
virtualization too! In this case, multiple virtual security gateways can
run on a single appliance or hardware platform. Like virtual server machines
running independently, virtual security gateways can be totally isolated from
each other by using separate Ethernet interfaces or using VLANS.
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Resources
VMware
Microsoft |
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Focus: Consolidation &
Security
This is becoming very common in the area of security. Often, many
individual security applications are handle differing aspects such as firewall,
VPN, Antivirus, Spyware and Spam filtering etc.. These 'siloed' or 'point'
approaches are replaced by a single UTM (Unified Threat Management) gateway
device. The savings in support and maintenance costs can be substantial and the
simpler, consolidated management almost always results in more effective
security defenses.
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Resources
Fortinet |
