Virtualization: Optimizing Enterprise IT
Webinar “Beyond Virtualization: How Automation and Dynamic Capacity Management Drive Down Capital Costs and Increase Utilization” will be held Wednesday, June 10 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. The webinar sponsored by Surgient, the leading provider of IT service delivery optimization and virtualization automation solutions, will explore how enterprise IT can fully harness the cost savings and operational benefits of rapid provisioning that comes with a self-service infrastructure model.
The rapidly increasing adoption of virtualized infrastructure provides for new approaches to IT capacity management, resulting in dramatic cost savings. Virtualization separates, or abstracts, the capacity within a server from the physical hardware supplying the resources, and the resulting pool of capacity can be provisioned as needed. However, capturing the full benefits of this abstraction in a self-service environment necessitates some changes to the way enterprise IT approaches capacity management.
To truly benefit from the rapid provisioning and streamlined processes enabled by self service, a new method of capacity management is needed that views the total available resources in aggregate and intelligently positions workloads within a pool of resources to maintain maximum utilization levels. This method of dynamic, deterministic capacity management requires a critical technology component: guaranteed resource reservations. Guaranteed resources, merged with resource pooling, workload capacity definitions, and predictive workload placement, create significant operational and capital benefits for enterprise IT organizations implementing a self-service infrastructure model.
