Intel Defines Virtualization: Virtualization enhanced by Intel Virtualization Technology will allow a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions. With virtualization, one computer system can function as multiple "virtual" systems. With processor and I/O enhancements to Intel’s various platforms, Intel Virtualization Technology can improve the performance and robustness of today’s software-only virtual machine solutions and enterprise quality management systems. Learn more than just the definition of virtualization here.

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Transform you data center.

Virtualization transforms your IT environment into a more powerful, flexible, and robust infrastructure. It helps you achieve maximum utilization from you data center by consolidating multiple environments onto a single server, letting you do more with less. With fewer systems required for the same tasks, virtualization simplifies the IT infrastructure, making it easier to manage resources, while avoiding unnecessary expansion of your data center. This translates to bottom-line savings and allows you to shift your IT budget to build on new and better services. In sever provisioning, virtualization decreases disaster recovery time from days to minutes. Additionally, business services become more reliable, with higher availability, reducing corporate risk and real-time losses from downtime.

Virtualization is not just for servers. Virtualization makes it easier for software and OS engineers to streamline test and development with multiple environments on a single workstation. Virtualization builds in agility and responsiveness from the data center to the desktop.

Change how you think.

Virtualization is a paradigm shift, it changes how you think about your resources. With virtualization, you are no longer limited to running only one operating system on a singe underutilized server or workstation. You can easily consolidate multiple platforms running different operating systems and heterogeneous applications into a single powerful, reliable platform. This reduces the number of systems you have to manage for the same tasks and operations, which can help cut your real-time power and cooling costs.

Virtualization is a software solution that isolates operating systems and their applications from platform hardware resources and from each other. Each instance of an OS is called a virtual machine (VM) and runs in its own partition. The virtualization software, called a virtual machine monitor (VMM), manages OS requests and activities, shifting control of the hardware to each OS as required.



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