For IT professionals struggling to control the dual responsibilities of lowering costs and driving innovation, virtualization is providing an opportunity to rethink the entire enterprise from the desktop to the data center. By integrating service-level, policy-based active management with virtualization, IT departments can automatically adapt systems architectures to changing business requirements and workloads and improve business agility. At the same time, the desktop is going through its own transformation via virtualization: Continually evolving application and desktop streaming toolsets, robust Web-based apps, and multiple varieties of desktop virtualization are challenging fundamental assumptions about what the terms “computer” and “operating system” mean. This top-to-bottom transformation is increasing system availability and ensuring better business continuity – a winning formula for any business.

Virtualization is enabling companies to lower data center costs, automate systems and network management, and improve access to leading-edge technologies across the enterprise.