Virtualization cuts hardware, power, and real estate costs by combining multiple servers, networks, and storage arrays into virtual pools. But for users like Pat O'Day, CTO at hosting and managed services provider BlueLock LLC, managing those resource pools means wrestling with multiple applications.
"There's a backup console, the SAN has a console, antivirus has a console -- everything has its own console," says O'Day. Buying all of those applications and training staffers to use them is costly and makes it hard to tune a virtualized environment to meet changing needs.
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