Virtualization has received considerable coverage in the IT trade press over the past few years, but is virtual real for the majority of IT shops? The answer is clear. Yes, it is. According to IDC, despite 2009 being a very tough year for the IT industry and the economy in general, the virtual machine software market grew by 1.4 percent to $1.8-billion that year. And a growing body of evidence shows that virtualization is being adopted by a large percentage of companies in all industries and in all but the smallest of organizations - and even in some of them as well.

In some areas, such as application performance, high availability, disaster recovery, and security, virtualization simultaneously presents both opportunities and challenges. Because virtualization is still a relatively young technology, some of these challenges and opportunities are only now being recognized and addressed.

This white paper expands on these virtualization issues and outlines the role that Vision Solutions plays in the virtualization marketplace.