As enterprise demand for new applications and capabilities shows no sign of slowing, neither do most IT budgets show any sign of expanding to match the need. Enterprises are turning to virtualization to maximize platform resources, and the approach is spreading beyond application development and testing labs to production systems— including application and Web server infrastructures.

Yet, while virtualized resources help enterprises meet their growing capacity needs, they also pose serious new management challenges. The long-term success of virtualization strategies will depend on how well virtualized systems can be managed.

In this white paper, learn about:

• The benefits of virtualization and the many advantages it can deliver to data centers
• The management challenges for virtualization
• How to deliver a virtualization management framework