Five questions to ask when considering an application virtualization environment:
1. Which goal is primary: decreasing hardware, decreasing license count or consolidating management?
2. Do you have a project far enough along that it can be used for proof of concept by an application virtualization vendor?
3. Has your staff mastered storage virtualization, and is it ready for the next step?
4. Can you amortize a new system over multiple functional areas, such as improving remote access, management upgrades and disaster recovery?
5. Do you have an application that must run over multiple servers or multiple applications that must run on a single server?
