Given how much effort IT departments are putting into their virtualization projects, organizations are looking for ways to get the most from the time and money they spend.  A key piece of doing so is making sure that you have a data center operations strategy that can control physical servers and virtual servers without requiring separate management stacks for each.  And, you need a way to optimize all of your hardware, software, and network resources to support the service levels required by your applications.  This white paper gives seven specific ways you can transform your virtualization effort from a simple cost-cutting tool to a foundation for comprehensive data center resource management.