Government Technology - November 2008 - (Page 26) SERVER VIRTUALIZATION’S POPULARITY HAS GOVERNMENT AGENCIES PRIMED TO GIVE DESKTOP VIRTUALIZATION A TRY. S ay the word “virtualization” and people usually think of servers — and it’s not hard to figure out why. In June 2007, the Canada-based market-research firm Strategic Counsel surveyed 969 public and private organizations worldwide with a minimum of 500 employees. The survey, sponsored by Computer Associates, revealed that at least 39 percent of respondents had adopted server virtualization technology. It also projected that the number of organizations using the technology would grow by 19 percent over the next 18 months. Server virtualization’s popularity is widespread and its benefits are well known. Virtualization allows multiple operating systems to run on a single hardware platform, which reduces the amount of equipment needed, cuts energy consumption and frees data center floor space. Now the IT world’s goodwill toward virtualization has grown significant enough for people to start embracing the technology’s other manifestation: virtualization of the desktop. VIRTUAL BY HILTON COLLINS STAFF WRITER ILLUSTRATION BY TOM McKEITH NOV_08 26 http://www.Govtech.com
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