The overall goal for IT departments is to improve the alignment of IT and business goals, including the users being supported. Virtualization is perhaps the most common approach for accomplishing this is. However, although virtualization delivers countless benefits, it requires careful considerations.

This IT Briefing describes the issues that IT should keep in mind when deciding to move to virtualization and when choosing the system to be shifted to the virtual environment. Explore a number of important topics, including:

• Defining virtualization goals
• Selecting virtualization candidates
• Capacity planning and determining requirements
• Comparing virtualization approaches
• Managing virtualization security
• Automating virtualization management

Read this IT Briefing to find out more.