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BOULDER, Colo., July 2 — Virtualization is one of the hottest trends in IT management, and according to recent research conducted by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), 75 percent of enterprises have already deployed virtualization in one form or another. The results show the overall virtualization market growing by approximately 26 percent annually. EMA’s research also reveals several common success strategies that IT professionals can utilize to accelerate deployments, including taking a very deliberate and careful approach to planning and making sure that any virtualization initiative is closely aligned with and supports specific corporate goals.

There have been a lot of strategies, of new technologies and ways of doing things in the last few years, whether they’re right for your business, whether you could introduce them in line with your business and your IT processes will depend on your business, on your IT, but consider the benefits from virtualization, from grid, where you can move to a service orientated form of IT, where you abstract the service from the hardware. There’s is always a risk of outage, introducing technologies that can improve redundancy, reduce your cost, or allow your hardware to be better utilized has to be a good thing, check it out.

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