Virtualization

With this technology we have access to “software-defined appliances running in common hardware platforms [so that] when we want to add a function, we simply add another software application to extend the value and the flexibility of the hardware we already own,” he said. “This is ideal for today's environment of digital transformation because we not only reduce the quantity of the hardware we need to buy, but we also increase our agility and the adaptability such that we can more easily respond to changing business requirements. And [virtualization] allows us to do this without big rip-and-replace cycles and it reduces vendor lock in.”