Benefits from virtualizing servers include cost savings and flexibility. Virtualization enables organizations increase the efficiency of data center’s hardware. Virtualization has had a substantial impact on data center architecture and management.

Here are a few strategies:

* if multiple users are accessing the system at any given time, it will be able to maintain optimal performance reducing lag time.

* Organizations should choose a solution with several entry points and distributes data uniformly across servers.

* Servers are easier to manage virtualized.

* Storage architecture must be improved.

The Next Frontier of Virtualization and Storage Infrastructure from The Data Center Journal