Five things to detract from successful virtualization projects

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Once virtualization takes hold, it can grow rapidly in many directions and become difficult to manage — a phenomenon that Matt Dattilo, vice president and CIO at PerkinElmer Inc. in Waltham, Mass., calls “VM creep.”

“You have servers here, servers there, but there’s no overall management or function in place. No one is keeping track of what is going on,” says Bruno Janssens, senior architect of infrastructure architectural services at The Hartford in Hartford, Conn.

Check out this article, it’s discussing problems with virtualization. In my experience, they were mainly non-technical, the ownership thing, charge back, support and being able to deliver, which although is a regular thing, is more so with virtualization as often promises about roll back, rapid deployment etc are made, those not being met can easily detract from your successes.

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