IT Virtualization Best Practices

To address growing energy and floor space demands required by new server and storage workloads while ensuring full utilization of investments in existing data center server hardware, organizations across the globe have begun to leverage virtualization technology. However, virtualization technologies alone, without the benefit of a meticulously engineered transformation effort, have fallen short of providing their promised benefits. In this book, a group of distinguished IBM authors provides a services-patterns approach to transforming IT infrastructures to a virtualized state to derive compelling business value for the organization. Businesses will learn how to become more productive in managing overall costs, more agile in provisioning new business services and improving time to market, more proactive in catering to rapidly changing business models and client demands, and more charged as an engine for fueling business growth.