Ken Hess brings up 10 good points if you find yourself having to convince your IT overlords that virtualization is the way to go. Even better, why not throw some cost-effective, Linux-based goodness into the mix?

Here are two of my favorites:

9. Price - Yes, I know I'm beating a dead horse here but you have to admit that it's a big selling point. Cheap is better than expensive and free is better than cheap any way you slice it. In today's slimmer budgets, it's a significant factor in making choices.

8. Performance - The number one barrier to conversion from physical to virtual machines for many is performance. Hypervisor technology and Linux make it a pairing that rivals native physical machine performance. With the addition of SAN storage, even disk I/O performance bottlenecks are resolved to the satisfaction of the most skeptical among you.

Tempting, right? Catch the rest in Ken's blog post here.

[via LinuxToday]