What if you could buy server storage and processor power like you buy electricity from the power company? How about if you could buy a more powerful machine and migrate your data over without any interruption of service? What if you could stamp out a copy of a running server with the press of a button? These are only a few of the possibilities offered with server virtualization. Virtualization software makes it possibe to run multiple servers with different operating systems on a single machine. With a variety of virtualization products competing for market share and enhancements in upcoming processors from AMD and Intel to make virtualization more efficient, it looks like this technology is poised to change the way we think about servers.

InfoWorld has a special report on the current state of server virtualization.