We all could use a little more flexibility in our infrastructures and that's  what you get with a cross-platform, or heterogeneous, virtual environment. Two of the major areas of flexibility involve application performance and reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). Check out the latest issue of the IT handbook, sponsored by Vizioncore, to learn how mixing solutions from different vendors can benefit the performance of your data center. Also in this issue, we'll discuss cross-platform virtualization, management costs, and hypervisor selection.