Energy efficiency is the number one topic among IT managers today; so many organizations are turning to virtualization and blade servers to decrease power and cooling consumption. In this webcast, a leading Gartner expert explains how to combine virtualization and blade servers for the best possible space reduction, resource utilization, and disaster recovery. This approach enhances IT's ability to respond to business needs by providing the following benefits:

• Improved server utilization and memory capacity
• Shortened time to deploy and repair servers
• Ability to combine applications that share resources for high I/O capacities and high performance networking and storage
• Serviceability that allows you to change applications without physically altering the hardware
• Reduced amount of rack space needed