<p>Over the past decade the data center has been transformed by the emergence and mainstream adoption of virtualization. Today, the data center is a far different creature than any architect would have imagined prior to the year 2000.</p><p>Virtualization has changed the ability of IT to deploy and manage workloads, and lent tremendous power to the administrator for manipulating those workloads in clever ways. As a consequence, the transformation has not merely impacted the data center floor and the inner workings hidden from the business, but it has changed the very nature of computing for the business as well.</p><p>Now test and development processes have, by the power of virtualization, been injected with new speed, lending agility to the business. Workload availability has increased; more workloads are possible in a given amount of floor space; easier deployment of workloads has created better separation of application components, improved configuration management, and lowered disruptive "incidents" in the IT and application infrastructure.</p><p>All of these changes have infused the business with a new ability to depend on IT, and to do so at lower cost and with less risk of disruption.</p><p><a href="http://www.infostor.com/storage-management/next-generation-virtualization-hyperconvergence-1.html">Keep reading...</a></p>