Before breaking off into a sprint, and hyperventilating with Microsoft's Hyper-V, it might be a good idea to take a slightly broader look at the purposes of virtualization and utility computing. When used properly, we can all agree that virtualization is changing the datacenter in a positive way by providing operational and economic benefits. Yet virtualization by itself does not create economic benefits. After all, virtualization is just the ability to abstract and hide the physical computing resources through the creation of a virtual machine (VM) with no initial cost benefit in doing so. In fact, in many environments virtualization may increase costs long term due to the new licensing and administration overhead that VMs create.
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