The industry has seen an upward trend in server virtualization for the distributed environments. Although virtualization is not new, (it’s been in the mainframe world for the more than a decade) it has gained substantial momentum primarily as a means to support data center management and operational...

The day-to-day challenges of managing the IT data center include management of its diverse and complex makeup of key systems to meet the needs of its users, but more importantly the overall business. As IT becomes more aligned with the business, IT begins to lose its longstanding identity as a "cost...