Issue link: http://hub-fr.insight.com/i/532074
50 IT Outcome: App and Infrastructure Delivery Automation Businesses move fast. Data centers need to do the same. Data center infrastructure needs to be up to the challenge of helping businesses acquire new customers, capture new revenue streams, enter new markets or shift business models on the fly. Virtualization 2.0 can help by automating service delivery across hybrid environments. That means apps – and the people who rely on them – have access to the right tools at the right time, governed by policies that control security, compliance, provisioning, backup and more. Infrastructure and app automation can be addressed in three stages of maturity with Virtualization 2.0 solutions: Stage 1: Infrastructure-as-a-Service Setting up automated, self-service provisioning is the first step in getting a virtualized data center up to speed. ✓ Required capabilities: Automated provisioning of VMs and related services through self-service portal. Infrastructure costing. ✓ Business outcomes: Accelerated time-to-value and more IT control. Much faster provisioning (weeks to minutes). Greater IT efficiency, reducing IT time, costs and headaches for provisioning. Faster ramp times for workgroups, improving the business' competitive profile.