How did Intel get a handle on the problem? Intel senior principal engineer Shesha Krishnapura shared the details of how the company used virtualization to get its server strategy under control — details that IT administrators may be able to put to good use in their own efforts to make their data center operations more efficient. ServerWatch has the story.
At VMworld this week, visitors were treated to a number of sessions detailing why virtualization makes sense for enterprises: it can cut down on server sprawl, up utilization, improve flexibility and security, and so on.
But few enterprises are able to boast running 100,000 servers in 95 data centers — the infrastructure that Intel, the world leader in chips, must contend with. And while it wants to cut costs, Intel also predicts that it will have to manage a 35 percent year-over-year growth rate in demand for compute services.
SAN FRANCISCO — Virtualization has proven to be a key asset to IT departments faced with shrinking technology budgets and demands to do more with less. Enterprises dealing with so-called server sprawl, the ready addition of new server hardware to meet increased demand for IT services, have been turning to virtualization as a way to consolidate those physical machines to save both money and space.
Here at the VMworld conference this week, chip giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) — as big a hardware proponent as any — detailed its efforts to rein in spending on its own IT infrastructure, which includes a big investment in virtualization.
