STR-389 Real or Virtual: All Infrastructures Must be Managed

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Real or Virtual: All Infrastructures Must be Managed

Document:                       STR-389
Date of Publication:          September 24, 2007
Number of Pages:             5
Lead Author(s):                C. Burns
Price:                              $195 USD

Perspective Summary:

IT virtualization is not only a hot topic, it is an important step in what Saugatuck sees as the increasing “Hybridization” of the typical IT environment. “Hybrid” IT environments combine in-house and outsourced technologies, systems, and services to enable more flexible business environments – and, just as importantly, enable the reduction of IT management costs. Virtualization is also a cornerstone of the still-nascent “IT utility” as described in previous Saugatuck research (see IT Insights and Trends: On the Road to Utility Computing - How Far is Far Enough?, STR-321, 22Feb07).

As part of this evolution in IT management and sourcing, Saugatuck research indicates that a growing number of user enterprise IT executives are learning that simply trading an infrastructure of real servers for one consisting of virtual servers (i.e., implementation of server virtualization) also requires important changes to their existing IT management processes and skills. These changes bring user IT management challenges – and yield very fertile opportunities for vendor supplied tools and services.

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