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After a brutal year of cost cutting, layoffs, and unattainable MBO’s, many IT managers are expecting more of the same in 2009. But hey, it’s a brand new year, there’s always a chance that better times are on the way. And as the smoke clears on 2008 and 2009 comes into focus, there are reasons to be hopeful.

In 2008 — somewhere in between the recessions, bailouts, elections, gas price insanity, Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs — the “Data Center 2.0? vision reached critical mass. Personally, I blame it all on virtualization.

After speaking to hundreds of IT teams over the course of 2008, one thing’s for certain:  virtualization in all its forms – server, storage, and network – has taken root across the board. Granted, the depth and breadth of deployment varies from team to team, but virtualization changed the face of the data center in 2008. Given its cost benefits in terms of consolidation, IT managers have little choice but to drive virtualization hard and fast. That’s the good news. The bad news? How do we manage all this stuff?

It’s not just the day to day systems management, it’s the billing, the support models and structures. As we condense from sixteen servers to one physical sever, how do we grant access to these virtual machines, what level of access do they get, and how do we manage accountablility of these servers in terms of ownership and billing/support.

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