More and more companies are looking to IT to improve resource utilization, increase automation and flexibility, and reduce the time to roll out new applications. At the same time, there is also a demand to reduce energy consumption, datacenter footprint, and ultimately, the IT dollars spent. Accomplishing this goal requires a shift in datacenter design methodology, away from the traditional isolated islands of IT resources towards a more efficient and dynamic, converged infrastructure datacenter design; a design where pools of infrastructure resources can be allocated while business teams request application services, enabling IT organizations to respond in a matter of hours and days, rather than weeks and months