In addition to the wide range of education that COMMON is already known for, the COMMON Fall 2005 IT Education Conference will include an education focus on virtualization. Virtualization provides organizations a consolidated and logical rather than physical view of data, computing power and storage capacity. By adding an emphasis on the topic of virtualization, COMMON provides you with the best single source for learning about this up and coming technology. IBM has invested a tremendous amount of resources into making the iSeries the most capable virtualization engine available on the market, and if you're not sure what all this means, you really need to come and hear it directly from the experts at COMMON!
Virtualization saves money! Don't pay for processing power that isn't used. By virtualizing your hardware you can dynamically add or remove processing power across your IT environment. For example, you can fully utilize all potential processing power by adding additional processing power to over-utilized systems, from systems which are not fully using their available processor power. In doing so, you can get your work done more quickly without buying additional hardware.
Virtualization decreases complexity! There is no need to buy a new server for every application. Using the capabilities of virtualization, you have the potential to add applications to a server without increasing staffing costs or operational complexity that comes with the "One Application One Server" world.
Never run out of processing power! When business peaks, virtualization allows you to decide where to apply more computing power. Don't be constrained by artificial limits on what one box can do, shift resources to high priority business when business peaks, and pick up lower priority work when peak processing has subsided.
