1、The state of virtualizationHow IT leaders are rethinking virtualization strategiesA Red Hat reportTable of contentsIntroductionPage 3 Chapter 2Key findings and insightsPage 6 Chapter 1About this reportPage 4 Chapter 3Start your virtualization journey with Red HatPage 16 Chapter 4Resources and inform

2、ationPage 18 3IntroductionFor more than 20 years,businesses have widely adopted virtualization as a way to improve how they manage IT resources.Virtualization initially gained momentum as organizations looked for ways to consolidate servers,lower power and cooling needs,and create more flexible envi

3、ronments for their applications.By allowing multiple operating systems(OSs)and applications to run on the same physical hardware,virtualization has helped companies reduce costs,streamline operations,and get more value from their existing infrastructure.Traditional virtualization technology uses a l

4、ightweight hypervisor installed directly on top of a server to abstract its physical resources(typically compute,network,and storage)so they can be accessed through software.This offers an incredibly efficient alternative to traditional processes,which is why virtualization quickly became a core par

5、t of modern datacenters and laid the groundwork for many cloud technologies that businesses rely on today.The research in this e-book shows that choice of where and how to run workloads continues to be top of mind for customers.While virtual machines(VMs)are expected to retain their position as a si

6、gnificant technology in IT far into the future,a large number of organizations are also reporting that cloud-native architectures(including containerized applications)are becoming increasingly important to their operations.This shift towards cloud-native architecture and containerized workloads mean