Building the Ultimate Virtual Infrastructure

Podcast Summary:

Length: 21:39

• Introduction
• Scott Farrand, VP for Infrastructure Software and BladeSystem, HP (:10)
• Scott’s background with virtualization and his role at HP (:27)
• What steps organizations should take to apply the principles of virtualization across the infrastructure -where they should start when building the ultimate virtual infrastructure (1:46)
• How much infrastructure provisioning can be automated once the connections have been virtualized (5:04)
• Performance is another factor - what considerations need to be made (9:31)
• The kind of gear that is required to virtualize network connections (13:21)
• The differences in storage options for virtual server deployments - how an organization can maximize the usage of its current resources (15:36)
• What's next for Scott’s group at HP (18:57)
• Close