Branch-office servers and storage devices
are excellent for application availability
and performance, but managing a distributed IT environment can be complex and costly.
An increasingly popular solution is consolidating branch-office IT resources into
a centralized data center to simplify management and decrease operating costs, while
maintaining reliability and performance.
Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual
machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer
across several environments. Different virtual machines can run different operating
systems and multiple applications on the same physical computer.