Monday, November 27 2006 @ 01:23 PM EST Contributed by: sde
Hello, my name is Dan Chu. I'm Senior Director of Products at VM Ware. Today I'm going to talk to you about what is virtualization. To set the stage, virtualization is a trend that is sweeping enterprise IT. The overall environment has over seven million servers being shipped worldwide every year. Now, out of those over six million of those servers are Intel architecture X86 volume servers. Now, these are getting deployed into enterprise data centers by the hundreds, by the thousands, even by the tens of thousands into large enterprises.
Now, these are traditional servers with single applications running on operating systems and they are sprawled out across these data centers. This leads to tremendous cost in a number of areas in terms of hardware, in terms of data center and facilities cost, in terms of operational, management and maintenance costs.
Now, to address these overwhelming pressures and costs what enterprise IT has found as the most compelling tool is virtualization technology. Across these millions of servers the average utilization, the average of each of these environments, these applications is 5 to 10 percent. These servers are barely utilized across the environment. 90 to 95 percent of their capacity isn't being used on average.
