Technology organisations have one mission – to provide technology-enabled services to their businesses at lower cost and risk and with higher service levels. Few would argue that virtualisation has a key role to play here. But the outcomes of virtualisation are dependent on several key factors. From decades of experience working alongside businesses of every shape and size and in every economic climate imaginable, HP has identified five common virtualisation rules, employed by organisations that have succeeded where others have not. While technology differs in complexity and scale from one business to the next, nearly every successful organisation deployed the same five rules to realise the full potential of virtualisation.