Virtualization is the abstraction of hardware through software. It enables a business to pool and share IT resources, as shown in the following graphic, so utilization is optimized and supply automatically meets demand. By pooling the IT resources that form the infrastructure and sharing these across applications and business processes, virtualization enables a rapid response to change. Virtualization is a cornerstone of HP's approach to helping customers realize the promise of becoming an Adaptive Enterprise - where business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change. Server virtualization enables administrators to optimize the usage and simplify the management of single- or multiple-server environments by configuring them as reusable pools of resources.
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