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Implementing Virtualization in a Global Business-Computing Environment

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Created on: Apr 23, 2008 4:43 PM by BillSunderland - Last Modified: May 8, 2008 10:36 PM by BillSunderland

Intel IT planned, engineered, and has begun deploying a virtualized buisness-computing production environment at several data centers, a rollout that will continue through 2008. Our initiative has already confirmed anticipated virtualization benefits such as faster, more automated deployment. We are initially consolidating older servers running applications that are not mission-critical; we see opportunities to achive 16:1 consolidation ratios. This paper discusses the methodology used to achieve these results.

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Virtualization_Global_Enviro_final.pdf (384.2 K)

Tags: data_center, data_center_efficiency, virtualization, server, roi, it_operations, best_practices, consolidation

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Apr 24, 2008 10:11 PM

jimmywai says:

Good piece of content! A lot of good learnings covered in migrating to a virtual environment.

May 7, 2008 3:51 PM

BillSunderland says: in response to: jimmywai

Thanks! It was quite a challenge, but by breaking it down into manageable pieces, we were able to tackle the job.

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Implementing Virtualization in a Global Business-Computing Environment

Created on: Apr 23, 2008 4:43 PM by BillSunderland - Last Modified: May 8, 2008 10:36 PM by BillSunderland

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