http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2008/6/16/corpit/20080616111514&sec=corpit

KUALA LUMPUR:At a time when every IT vendor is talking about virtualisation as a strategy for saving power, cooling and space costs, none seem to be offering customers a full choice of ways to go about virtualising their IT infrastructure.

Except for Sun Microsystems which offers four different approaches to server consolidation, claimed the company’s regional eco director Mark Stanton.

Virtualisation is the process of separating the pieces of IT infrastructure — hardware, operating system, and applications — to enable these savings. It is not just servers that can be virtualised but also storage, desktops, datacentres, networks and applications.

Check out this article talking about virtualization and Sun. It’s always interesting to see what the different vendors opinions are, what their approach to the challenges, to the solutions, what their value proposition is, an interesting read. Virtualization of the infrastructure can enable not just in terms of cost, of energy efficiency, but in business empowerment through abstraction of the end user, from the individual components of the IT infrastructure, that a memory chip, a bad disk might not cause an outage, that the workload can be moved around the infrastructure to meet the business need, to maintain service delivery.

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