When it comes to virtualizing servers or applications in a production environment, there are so many negative thoughts and myths around us.  Even though we know the theoretical benefits of virtualization, still we have doubts on real outputs and benefits in real world.

The below Infographic is from EMC, the leader is cloud computing and storage. It nicely explains the myths and realities of virtualization based on the study conducted by EMC Corporation and VMware.

Myths of virtualization on main three areas, Cost, Performanceand Availability have been covered in below infographic based on the conducted study.  As I’m working in an IT department which manages several servers and core applications in our organization, I can surely say that Virtualization is helping us and our organization in so many ways.

I have already listed out the benefits of server virtualization in earlier post (including how it reduced our work load while shifting the data center to different location)

Here is the Infographic (Click here to view the original post from EMC)