Virtualization: Same Servers, More Capacity

12/10/2007

With corporate data centers at or near their physical limit, companies are turning to virtualization as the best way to meet their growing needs for computing resource capacity and flexibility. Since most servers run at less than 10 percent of capacity, using virtualization to increase this percentage can enable those same servers to meet a business's computing needs for years to come.

Virtualization can also deliver other benefits: greater return on investment in hardware and data center facilities, reduction in new expenditures, high application availability and disaster recovery, and perhaps most important, the ability to adjust capacity to meet changing business needs—without incurring new costs—by provisioning new servers and migrating applications in real time.

But while companies are adopting virtualization within their data centers, and want to use it to deploy Java platforms, dedicated solutions have not been available to deliver the advantages of virtualization in a way that maximizes the benefits of the Java platform.

Now, a comprehensive solution combines three levels of virtualization—Intel® Virtualization Technology at the chip level, VMware® ESX Server at the server level, and BEA WebLogic® Liquid Operations Control™ (BEA WebLogic LOC) and BEA LiquidVM™ at the software level—to transform the cost/benefit calculations for Java virtualization.

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