The virtualization solutions discussed in this white paper are specifically designed to work on Itanium and are focused on meeting the needs of mission-critical environments in which RISC and mainframe systems dominate. The breadth in virtualization development on Itanium not only should give customers comfort that Itanium momentum continues to build but also should provide customers with more flexibility. With all these different virtualization solutions enabled to run on Itanium, customers can weigh the benefits and challenges of each solution relative to their specific business requirements to make the best choice on how they virtualize their mission-critical environments as they move to more open solutions.