Keys to a Successful Virtual Infrastructure Implementation

id you ever notice how IT trends tend to be cyclical, mirroring trends in clothing styles and television shows? Women are wearing bell-bottoms again and we're watching a lot of cop shows these days, just like back in the 1970s.In IT, we are running virtual machines (VMs) on Intel platforms just as we were doing 20 years ago on mainframes.

But today, the virtualization movement is much larger because we can virtualize on industry-standard x86 platforms, which form the majority of desktop, laptop, and server shipments and enable much cheaper virtualizations than mainframe systems did. We can run multiple operating systems on a single physical system and share the underlying hardware resources, which not only saves money but also simplifies system management.