Imagine a scenario where all your administrative tasks are centralized within one place and performed virtually from any client point through autonomic computing.

Virtualization enhances this capability whereby a virtual desktop, hardware platform, storage device and networking resources are automatically managed based on perceived activity and utility computing within servers and data centers. Thus, services given in an IT environment are only paid for by a company without having the devices physically present.

Take for example Desktop virtualization. Desktop virtualization enables access of data and applications within servers by different client points. A good example is the thin client architecture which has the operating system running within the servers while client side is connected to the thin client devices.

Virtualization helps companies to reduce their total cost of ownership, reduce management chores, increase business agility and continuity, enable anywhere access, and improve security and compliance.

It offers a broad portfolio of solutions that empower companies to choose the technologies that best address their unique business and IT challenges while preserving their existing IT investments.

The technological gains a business is to expect on integration are:

• 1. Centralized Data management
• 2. Centralized Security
• 3. Faster and easy manipulation of applications