Title Page | Introduction | Server Issues | Virtualization Background | Benefits for Servers | Desktop Issues | Benefits for Desktops | Conclusion | Works Cited | Image References |
Virtualization Conclusion
Ventures into virtualization have allowed companies like VMware to not only improve the IT industry’s poor reputation for efficiency, but have allowed organizations as a whole to dramatically cut overhead. Corporations are now more capable of not only managing their systems, but minimizing their company-wide expenses on hardware and electricity usage. From the perspective of any IT dependent organization, virtualization is a blessing. On the larger scale, the results of virtualization should hopefully provide insight into the potential gains of companies willing to confront economic and environmental issues. While there are definite financial incentives in ventures like VMware and Citrix, the larger reward comes from the revelations such products provide. Until the poor utilization of resources is brought to a consumer’s attention, people will continue to blindly accept wasteful products until an alternative becomes available. Companies are generally content in providing merely sufficient products as long as consumers are willing to buy them. Until manufacturers are prodded into taking steps to improve the significant downside of their goods, they deem it unnecessary. Virtualization has opened consumer’s eyes to the flaws of traditional products, and their lack of efficiency. From this we can only hope that society’s focus on mere singular details, such as speed, no longer persists and consumers become more aware of a products potential for improvement.