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Full article: Virtualisation - a CIO's Best Friend? (14-Sep-07)
Virtualisation is thought to play a significant role in tackling the challenges faced by CIO’s such as growing volumes of data, increased demands on data and rising energy costs. The benefits of virtualisation are that it increases flexibility, availability and speed of deployment of computer resources. These benefits may explain why in May 2007 three quarters of silicon.com’s CIO Jury said virtualisation was a current investment priority, causing the technology to move into the mainstream.