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08/08/2007, 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Speaker:
Tony Iams, Vice President & Senior Analyst, System Software Research, Ideas International Inc.
Virtualization is generating genuine excitement in the IT community. Over the long term, this new approach to managing resources may cause a fundamental transformation of IT operations. However, virtualizing servers is in fact only the first step toward achieving real Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) improvements. Improved server utilization does help lower acquisition costs, but those savings may be relatively insignificant compared to the ongoing costs of managing the infrastructure needed to host workloads, including operating systems, applications, networks, patches, and software updates. How does the adoption of virtualization affect the way that systems are managed? In an effort to answer this question, Ideas International recently interviewed 50 users who had deployed virtualization about their requirements for managing virtualized infrastructures. This session will summarize the results of these interviews, providing a snapshot of the impact that virtualization has in a variety of real-world environments today.
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