LATEST INTELLIGENCE
A RED HOT REPORT
THE STATE OF VIRTUALIZATION
HOW IT LEADERS ARE RETHINKING VIRTUALIZATION STRATEGIES
Introduction
For more than 20 years, businesses have widely adopted virtualization as a way to improve how they manage IT resources.
Virtualization initially gained momentum as organizations looked for ways to consolidate servers, lower power and cooling needs, and create more flexible environments for their applications. By allowing multiple operating systems( OSs) and applications to run on the same physical hardware, virtualization has helped companies reduce costs, streamline operations, and get more value from their existing infrastructure.
Traditional virtualization technology uses a lightweight‘ hypervisor’ installed directly on top of a server to abstract its physical resources( typically compute, network, and storage) so they can be accessed through software. This offers an incredibly efficient alternative to traditional processes, which is why virtualization quickly became a core part of modern data centers and laid the groundwork for many cloud technologies that businesses rely on today.
The research in this e-book shows that choice of where and how to run workloads continues to be top of mind for customers. While virtual machines( VMs) are expected to retain their position as a significant technology in IT far into the future, a large number of organizations are also reporting that cloud- native architectures( including containerized applications) are becoming increasingly important to their operations.
This shift towards cloud-native architecture and containerized workloads means that many IT teams are expected to operate VMs and containers simultaneously. Because VMs and containers were introduced to solve different IT challenges and meet diverse application requirements, each satisfies unique needs. •
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