IDC Research on the Growth of Virtualization

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 Listen to the Podcast: Subscribe to the VSM Podcast: ( rss | m3u | iTunes | xspf | channel ) Download: mp3 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 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. Related Links: IDC Stephen Elliot's Profile Comments Search RSS Please register as a member of Virtual Strategy Magazine to comment.Click here to register. 3.26 Copyright (C) 2008 Compojoom.com / Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved."