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How to Address the Two Key Challenges with Virtualization
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How do you accelerate virtualization for your enterprise — and take IT flexibility and cost savings to the next level? Start by downloading this whitepaper from Riverbed. WAN optimization is a class of technology that has rapidly been adopted across enterprises in order to address the challenges of bandwidth limitations and latency over the WAN. In this paper, we examine the trends toward server consolidation and virtualization, and how WAN optimization can help IT organizations like yours solve the key challenges of application performance and information availability within these environments.

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With the increasing globalization of business, more than two-thirds of employees are working outside company headquarters -- in a branch office, at customer sites, on the road, or at home. As workforce demographics continue to change, data at remote offices continues to grow at a rapid rate, in many cases doubling annually. In response to this data sprawl and distribution of IT resources, more and more organizations are pulling back servers and applications from remote branches to centrally house them in data centers. This has proven to be an effective way to manage and protect data while reducing costs and simplifying administration.

Along with the IT consolidation trend, server virtualization has risen to the forefront of initiatives because of the multiple benefits it offers to IT in the form of:

  • Additional cost and power savings by eliminating server hardware
  • increased resource utilization
  • Consistent test and production environments
  • Hardware independence through the virtual abstraction layer
  • improved release times for new services
  • Enhanced disaster recovery capability

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