http://www.bladewatch.com/2008/09/07/how-do-you-consolidatevirtualize/ Tracking Blades, virtualization and grid Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:31:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.bladewatch.com/2008/09/07/how-do-you-consolidatevirtualize/comment-page-1/#comment-44012 IT’s About Uptime - The StackSafe Blog » Blog Archive » The Next Step for Virtualization - Pre-production Testing Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:04:54 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/?p=3663#comment-44012 [...] Consolidation is one of two functions that have driven the present-day virtualization adoption rate, with the other being application development and testing.  IT data centers are still adopting virtualization to consolidate physical server space.  However, today’s consolidation is termed “green computing“.  The conversion of physical machines to virtual machines that are hosted on a single physical machine reduces not only data center floor space, but also the heating and cooling costs for fewer physical machines.  So the corporation saves money, and the environment benefits, too.  Companies also drove virtualization adoption by provisioning virtual labs that support code development, and that host applications for unit and functional testing. [...] [...] Consolidation is one of two functions that have driven the present-day virtualization adoption rate, with the other being application development and testing.  IT data centers are still adopting virtualization to consolidate physical server space.  However, today’s consolidation is termed “green computing“.  The conversion of physical machines to virtual machines that are hosted on a single physical machine reduces not only data center floor space, but also the heating and cooling costs for fewer physical machines.  So the corporation saves money, and the environment benefits, too.  Companies also drove virtualization adoption by provisioning virtual labs that support code development, and that host applications for unit and functional testing. [...]

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