This website is for VMware which is the global leader in
virtualization and virtual machines (VMs).
I know that Microsoft has developed a virtualization product, but I am
unaware of the specifics and don’t think that it has received as much exposure
as VMware. The “Virtualization” tab of
this website describes the advantages of implementing virtualization with
VMware. They even go on to explain that
“VMware customers typically save 50-70% on overall IT costs by consolidating
their resource pools and delivering highly available machines with VMware
vSphere”. In my opinion 50 – 70 %
savings in IT costs is a bold statement, but I know at my job with
virtualization we were able to consolidate many of our servers. Our company probably did not save as much as
most because our level of consolidation was limited based on Department of
Defense (DoD) Security Technical Information Guides (STIGs) that we are
required to implement in our environment.
Apparently there are a lot more security configurations that need to be
implemented before we can take full advantage of virtualization. On another note, the site goes on to define
virtualization and VMs as well. There
are other links that users can navigate to learn more about the products,
company, press releases, etc.
http://www.vmware.com/virtualization/virtual-machine.html
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