The Business Case For Virtualization

Virtualization enables you to pool and share IT resources to better serve the business. With new, innovative HP technology—such as HP Virtual Connect modules and HP Thermal Logic cooling—you can now pool and share network connections and power and cooling resources, in addition to server and storage resources.

From a business perspective, the pooling and sharing of IT resources allows IT supply to keep pace with fluctuating demand. From a cost perspective, pooling and sharing helps you increase the utilization of IT assets and pack more computing and storage capacity into the same space. Storage area network (SAN) storage, for instance, is typically only 50 percent utilized in a non-virtualized environment. That increases to 80 percent in a virtualized environment.

This all contributes to bottom-line business benefits. Virtualization helps you reduce the total cost of ownership of IT assets—in terms of both capital expenses and operating expenses—by enabling greater use of your physical resources.