IDC Research on the Growth of Virtualization By Charlie Leffingwell published: Friday, August 17 2007
VSM speaks with Stephen Elliot, Research Manager for IDC’s Enterprise Systems Management Software Service and Industry Insights’ IT Management Service, about the dramatic growth of virtualization
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Podcast Summary:
Length: 20:21
- Introduction
- Stephen Elliot, Research Manager for IDC’s Enterprise Systems Management Software Service and Industry Insights’ IT Management Service (:10)
- Key benefits - research findings (:48)
- Cost savings, process side, efficiency (1:10)
- Creation of virtual computing teams (2:30)
- Key challenges - research findings (3:40)
- Learning curve still exists (3:50 )
- Understanding the application of technology (4:00)
- Performance Limitations(5:00)
- Executive level buy in and visibility (5:32)
- Challenge of managing virtual infrastructure (6:02)
- Recommended actions (8:28)
- Advice for platform providers (11:05)
- Key benchmarks - research findings (13:48)
- Virtualization's impact on management, product and process (17:05 )
- Closing

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