Hewlett-Packard White Paper Sample

Perhaps no recent technology has entered the IT mainstream faster than server virtualization. Indeed, the percentage of workloads running on virtualized servers will jump from 18 percent in 2009 to nearly 50 percent by the end of 2012, according to the analyst firm Gartner Inc., in Stamford, Conn. The factors behind that trend are no mystery. By enabling a single physical server to sup-port multiple virtual machines, each running its own operating system and applications, server virtualization empowers companies to reduce spending on hardware and energy, conserve data center floor space, enhance IT agility and heighten disaster preparedness.