Your organization can successfully run your business-critical applications while maintaining real-time availability and maintaining service quality. Delivering these capabilities can also be done at lower costs and with increased confidence by your IT department.

1. 1)The virtualizing of an application is simpler than a full re-platforming of that application with much less modification needed.
2. 2)Legacy applications can benefit from the cloud-like benefits of virtualization with capabilities such as dynamic scalability, higher integrated availability, real-time provisioning, and automated disaster recovery.
3. 3)Virtualization adds to hardware resiliency with the creation of a layer of abstraction including built-in high availability and fault tolerance; increasing uptime and performance with application mobility and flexibility.
4. 4)Virtualization reduces costs, but it also improves service quality, business continuity, security, and compliance with automated disaster recovery functionality.
5. 5)Virtualization allows the owners of the applications to share system resources, dynamically scale the applications, and manage resource pools including reservations, live workloads, and limits.
6. 6)Virtualization allows for processor-based licensing by consolidating application instance, saving costs for hardware and software.
7. 7)Major independent software vendors (ISVs) such as Microsoft™, Oracle™, SAP™, and IBM™ support virtual environments for their enterprise applications.
8. 8)Performance and IVS support of virtualized Tier 1 applications have been significantly improved due to advancements in software and hardware.
9. 9)Virtualization enables compute, network, and storage resource management for even the most I/O intensive applications such as storage and network I/O controls.
10. 10)Virtualization in even one business-critical application, such as Oracle™ or Microsoft SQL™ databases, SAP™, and Microsoft Exchange™ is critical in transitioning enterprises to successful cloud computing.

Over the past several years, virtualization has brought many changes to the IT departments of mid-sized and large enterprises. As more companies move their critical business applications to the cloud, IT professionals are becoming less skeptical and more confident about virtualizing their business-critical applications.