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Organisational issues within large IT departments are the major factor holding back virtualisation, according to VMware chief executive Diane Greene.

Virtualisation spans areas such as storage, servers and network security, often requiring cooperation between several groups within a company.

“[Organisational silos are] one of the things that holds back virtualisation deployments because the different groups have to agree about procedures and impact,” Greene told vnunet.com in an interview at the VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco.

Absolutely, using virtualization as the business enabler, and understanding that it can be used as the vehicle to resolve the outstanding issues, the billing or even the ownership issues, switching your IT teams from an infrastructure teams, to a service delivery, service provisioning model.

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