This document provides an overview of infrastructure consolidation and virtualization. It discusses:
1. State CIO priorities including consolidation, shared services, and budget/cost control.
2. The evolution of enterprise computing from centralized mainframes to distributed systems and proliferation of applications, and now toward standardization and consolidation through virtualization.
3. Server virtualization technologies including hardware partitioning, operating system containers, and virtual machines.
4. Trends toward greater adoption of virtualization and expectations for its impact on IT budgets and challenges in creating custom platform environments.
5. The growing trend toward both public and private clouds and enterprise evolution toward hybrid models.
6. Implications for IT in delivering cloud