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http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=48800&src=site-marq

Almost half of global virtualisation projects end in failure, new research has claimed.

A poll of 800 organisations around the world commissioned by Computer Associates found that 44 percent of respondents who had deployed server virtualisation technology were unable to declare their deployment a success.

The inability to quantify return on investment was a key factor in this reticence to claim positive results, the research found.

Another article discussing that firms can’t quantify success for their projects. Is it not that I can get the technology in the door, I can provide a virtual infrastructure, but there are still the non-technical issues, billing, support, delivery etc, which might de-rail your project.

Everything might work wonderfully, but if I request a new virtual machine it might take 2 weeks with my standard processes/work flows, in which case from a user perspective, virtualization is rubbish and the project has been a failure.

Let’s not be too hard, let’s focus on getting the processes right, discussing what the issues are and fixing them.

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