Comments on: What is Virtualization?

By: Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:31:15 +0000

I think there is room for both cloud and virtualization to live side by side.
Each company has to assess which offering to run with?

A virtualization solution can be costly to begin with but it may help the CEO’s of the world to sleep easily with a 99.9% uptime offering from Vmware for instance.

Can companies put up with ‘denial of service’ outages as was witnessed yesterday with Twitter?

By: Joe Hussey

Joe Hussey — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:30:53 +0000

Kevin,

Is it possible that Cloud offerings will render Virtualization as expounded above ‘redundant’ ? For example what Amazon and others are offering ? Is it not more compelling from a business and ROI viewpoint?

By: Kevin McCarthy

Kevin McCarthy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:51:16 +0000

Each company should use the ROI calculator to assess the true savings with virtualization.

Gartner has said “Virtualization will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012″

By: Brendan Lally

Brendan Lally — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:01:55 +0000

ROI on Desktop virtualization not proven yet.

Seems ‘techie bits’ still 2 complicated and also hard 2 compare when most IT shops don’t know how much it *really costs* to provision a desktop