How Enterprise Management Infrastructure Virtualization Works With Logical Domains and CoolThreads Servers: Driving Datacenter Optimization through Virtualization. IT organizations constantly seek technology that can lower the cost and complexity of managing ever-expanding compute environments. Toward this end, enterprises need strategies and tools that help maximize the use of every compute asset and improve operational flexibility.

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Driving Datacenter Optimization through Virtualization

IT organizations constantly seek technology that can lower the cost and complexity of managing ever-expanding compute environments. Toward this end, enterprises need strategies and tools that help maximize the use of every compute asset and improve operational flexibility.

Datacenter Server Proliferation

In order to remain competitive, organizations continually adjust existing business plans and work to create new income opportunities. Technology often holds the key to revenue improvement, creating requirements for IT organizations to deploy increasing numbers of compute services. With enterprise success at stake, many organizations avoid possible system security, availability, and performance conflicts by deploying only one application per server. Corresponding servers are then installed to support development, test, and disaster recovery requirements.

These common datacenter management practices soon create a sprawling compute infrastructure that is difficult to manage and leaves systems largely under utilized. In addition, IT managers are startled to find datacenters quickly reach physical and budgetary constraints in the areas of power, cooling, and real estate. The resulting inefficient IT infrastructure carries cost burdens that can actually limit business growth, leading organizations to seek more effective hosting strategies.