  Virtualization technology has provided many benefits to organizations, but it
cannot provide automation. This causes operational expenditure (OpEx)
inefficiencies, which are solved by cloud computing (vCloud Director vApps).
Organizations have adopted virtualization technology to reduce IT costs and
meet business needs. In addition to improved CapEx efficiency, virtualization
has enabled organizations to respond to business needs faster. While
virtualization has dramatically optimized core IT infrastructures,
organizations struggle to reduce OpEx costs. Because virtualization only
addresses server consolidation, administrators are faced with the manual and
resource-intensive day-to-day tasks of managing the rest of the data center:
networking, storage, user management. This manuscript presents details on how
leverage vApps based on a virtualized platform to improve CapEx efficiency in
today s data center. The combination of virtualization and cloud computing can
transform the data center into a dynamic, scalable, and agile resource capable
of achieving significant CapEx and OpEx cost savings.
