Virtualization from the Data Center to the Desktop

Overview

Enterprises worldwide are embracing a digital work style to stay competitive in a dynamic and increasingly global business environment. This work style requires that teams collaborate seamlessly across organizations and time zones, while success relies on speed, mobility, and connectivity.

Virtualization has gained much attention across organizations looking to address these challenges, improving the efficiency of their IT operations and enhancing their responsiveness to changing conditions. Originally focused on consolidating resources in the data center, virtualization now has applications across the IT spectrum, driving down costs and improving capabilities and performance. This paper looks at the role virtualization should take in an optimized IT infrastructure, and presents a set of principles and best practices to help you build a comprehensive virtualization strategy for your organization.