Today’s IT leaders must transform IT from a cost center into the heart of growth. This means IT must dramatically change how it delivers services to the business. IT must move away from the monolithic static model, embracing a high level of agility, so it can immediately respond to business requirements.
Virtualization has been a game-changing technology in the data center. It has allowed IT to consolidate physical servers and create agility at the compute layer. Additionally, the rise of server virtualization has allowed companies to deliver compute as-a-service.