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Tuesday, August 5, 2008, 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Speaker:
Tony Iams, Vice President & Senior Analyst, System Software Research, Ideas International Inc.
Virtualization technology has proven its ability to deliver several fundamental business benefits including: consolidation and improved resource utilization, reduced hardware footprint and its associated power and cooling requirements, better agility from simplified resource provisioning, simplified high availability and disaster recovery, improved test and development processes and legacy application support.
Indeed, virtualization is increasingly becoming a standard part of IT infrastructures, both in hardware and software. Over the long term its use could redefine how datacenters are configured and maintained. But while much of the attention in the industry has been on Intel x86 virtualization, virtualization technology is available for a variety of platforms, including UNIX systems and mainframes. This session will review some of the basic trends driving the adoption of virtualization and it will compare the current capabilities of server virtualization technology on X86/x64 with other platforms.
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