Service-Oriented Virtualization

Leading technology analyst firms (and Wall Street financial analysts as well) cite the adoption of Virtualization as one of the most significant technology priorities of this decade. There is a reason for this excitement – Virtualization at the hardware and data center level generates an almost immediate payback in saved IT operations costs – potentially saving several million dollars in IT costs for the enterprise, and it happens virtually overnight. But in focusing merely on the hardware side of Virtualization, are we leaving money on the table? Yes, it is significant that we can reduce the cost of servers and network drives, and save the cost of replicating the operating environment for virtual Test Beds, but do those commodities represent the bulk of the IT budget? What if we could apply the benefits of Virtualization where we spend 80 percent or more of that budget -- in the key enterprise software that runs our business, and the extensive development, support and maintenance costs of these applications?

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Publisher:	iTKO	Published:	08/06/2008	Type: Length: Format:	Whitepaper 24 pages
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Topics:	SOA Testing Virtualization