Seven tips for succeeding with virtualization

摘要

As virtualization projects gain scale and strategic value, enterprise IT managers must move quickly beyond tactical approaches to achieve best results. Consider these Gartner forecasts: More than 4 million virtual machines will be installed on x86 servers by 2009, and the number of virtualized desktops could grow from less than 5 million in 2007 to 660 million by 2011. The popularity of vir-tualizing x86 server and desktop resources has many enterprise IT managers reassessing ways to update already virtualized network and storage resources, too.