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Organizations have historically used formal procurement and change management processes to control the introduction of physical servers into data centers. However, the ease of VM creation and the marginal capital impact of adding new virtual machines knock that model on its ear. When servers can be spun up in minutes, management headaches are guaranteed to increase in a nonlinear curve, spiking as the number of virtualized servers rises and new VM-specific feature sets are introduced.

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