Post By Martin 1 Comment
December 2007 07

Seeking an on demand IT service

http://www.gridtoday.com/grid/1918476.html

If I learned one thing from the time I spent at last week’s Gartner Data Center conference, it’s that the greater IT community still isn’t entirely on board with the family of technologies this publication holds near and dear, but it will jump on soon enough — and virtualization will spur it along.

Kicking off the event with a keynote titled “The Future of Infrastructure and Operations,” analyst Thomas Bittman predicted that virtualization will be the most “impactful” infrastructure and operations technology through 2012, and that it will help to transition IT into what Gartner is calling the real-time infrastructure (RTI) era. Virtualization will play this facilitator role, he said, because aside from simply being used to consolidate servers, virtualization technology enables the layers of abstraction necessary for alternative delivery models like grid computing, SaaS and cloud computing, all of which will touch different parts of the RTI elephant.

Check out this interesting article talking about virtualization and the real time infrastructure. Switching your IT to be a real time infrastructure/on demand type solution can be a real business enabler. That I could scale up the infrastructure in line with my business is fantastic, the challenges for most enterprises are the process type issues, we can deploy a virtualized infrastructure, a grid solution in a matter of days or weeks, getting the applications online and working within these environments can equally be achieved, working out how we pay for it, who owns this infrastructure, who manages it and has access to which parts of the infrastructure is the challenge.




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  1. Joe Pendry says:
    December 7, 2007 at 20:38

    Carl Claunch’s comment that virtualization is a “swiss army knife” is an interesting take. It seems many uses beyond server consolidation are gaining media and analyst attention. Storage, for example, is talked about in this article, http://www.cio.in/esntech/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=4202

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