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For starters, a virtual data center provides excellent awareness of what application is actually running.
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Solving the virtual data center segmentation problem is an important first step in creating the virtual security suite.
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Does a virtual data center not need security?
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The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.
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Implenia's engineers could use that virtual world mock-up to remotely track the data center's power consumption and efficiency in ways that would have otherwise been tough without visiting the location.
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Excelling at compute and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), these solutions redefine data center graphics capability while consuming 95 percent less power at idle and dramatically cutting data center operating costs(4).
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VMware focuses on the virtualization they know from their data center background with a vision to bring cloud, virtual desktop and application delivery together under one product.
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But you also know far less about what is going on with these virtual assets than you do with the computing that goes on in your data center.
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In order to participate as a virtual power plant, you have to have a clear understanding of your data center power consumption, your forecast, and your flexibility for reducing (and increasing) power consumption with different application load.
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But for now, if a company hands its information technology infrastructure to a vendor like Amazon, it's largely locked in Amazon's proprietary cloud, with no easy way to move its virtual IT infrastructure to another company's service or back into its data center.
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