Five VM-Level Infrastructure Adaptations — Virtualization Review

An IT industry analyst article published by Virtualization Review.

Infrastructure is evolving for the better, making the job of the admin easier in the long run. Here are five ways it’s evolving to work at the VM level.

• By Mike Matchett

It used to be that IT struggled to intimately understand every app in order to provide the right supporting infrastructure. Today, server virtualization makes the job much easier, because IT can now just cater to VMs. By working and communicating at the VM level, both app owners and infrastructure admins stay focused, using a common API to help ensure apps are hosted effectively and IT runs efficiently.

But the virtual admin still has to translate what each VM requires, going beyond direct-server resources into the specialized domains of other IT infrastructure silos. While silos have traditionally pooled rare expertise to optimize expensive resources, in today’s virtualized world, silos seem to offer more friction than leverage. Here are five ways infrastructure is evolving to work at the VM level.

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   VM-Centric Storage.

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