To respond to the forces of change in today’s business environment, organizations need more flexible and cost-effective IT infrastructures. Many are taking a new approach by consolidating and virtualizing their IT resources — servers, storage, applications, networks and even desktops.

 

Virtualization decouples hardware and software resources from their physical implementation. It enables organizations to make IT resources available to applications as needed rather than requiring a dedicated server for each application. With the addition of advanced, automated provisioning capabilities to this virtualized environment, resources can be dynamically applied, providing organizations with an even more efficient, responsive and flexible infrastructure.

 

These characteristics underpin the smarter data center. To read more about this, download the whitepaper by IBM using the instructions below.