THE ADAPTIVE Using resource virtualization to achieve business optimization ORGANIZATION

摘要

Lobal market volatility is forcing business change at an unprecedented rate. Information technology organizations (ITOs) can no longer afford to be just business-aligned; they must be integrated with business needs. Organizations must instead become adaptive, focusing on dramatically improving the speed and economics of business change to meet new market conditions. Numerous technologies can be tapped to enable an adaptive organization. One capability critical to this effort is virtualization, the creation of a logical abstraction of the physical environment. Virtualization allows one to appear as many or many to appear as one, depending on the business need.