Kusnetzky Group, Inc. posted Virtualization - Virtual Machine Software is Just the Beginning, another position paper intended to review the forces changing the market for information technology in general and virtualization technology in specific. Virtualization is the use of hardware and software technology to present a logical view of resources. This logical view is often strikingly different than the actual physical view. What does this really mean? System users may see the image of many different computers even though it is a single system.

    These position papers are written by the well known software analyst, Daniel Kusnetzky, who is now the Princiapal Analyst and President, Kusnetzky Group Inc. This impact paper can be found on the Kusnetzky Group, Inc. website. They may see many individual systems as a single computing resource. Individuals can be allowed to access computing solutions with devices that didn't exist when developers created the applications. Applications may appear to use devices that have long been considered obsolete even though none are actually present.

    With the inherent capabilities of computers, virtualization has become a major catch phrase being bandied about in the media today. Usually, the media mistakenly equates virtual machine technology, technology that can encapsulate all of the software that runs on a physical system and allows that capsule to run along side of others on a single system, with virtualization itself. It is often presented as something new and different rather than a well-established group of technologies with a long track record of success in data centers around the world. Suppliers, such as Intel, have been involved with all levels of virtualization technology for a very long time.

    With overall server utilization in many workload environments under 20%, the key to adoption of virtual machine software boils down organizations wanting to make the most of available technology, increase their levels of efficiency and agility; improve their ability to provide products and services to customers. In the end, The Kusnetzky Group © 2007 organizations are seeking ways to use technology to both increase its revenues and lower its costs.

    Suppliers, such as Intel, are focusing a great deal of investment on virtualization technology at all levels of the model. They are also working with suppliers of systems, operating system software, data management software, application development as well as the suppliers of application development framework software in order to offer organizations a highly optimized set of virtualization solutions at the lowest possible cost.

    Through the efforts of Intel to increase virtualization optimization and decrease power consumption, IT managers have the capability to increase their overall system utilization while decreasing costs by 50% or greater. Here’s a few of the likely improvements virtualization technology will provide in the near future.

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