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A brilliant example of this was brought to my attention recently by a friend who’s working for a multi-national, they’re taking part in a virtualization and data center consolidation project to reduce their IT and operational costs.

The data center and server teams were told to identify legacy hardware first to do one of two things, virtualize the existing system, or provide a new virtual machine (with supported OS/middleware) that the application team could migrate to.

As part of this, the teams had an email from the CEO which illustrated that the project had full business backing, that you not participating was delaying excellence (I’ve paraphrased the email to protect identity):

“Organization name is taking part in a billion dollar investment programme to virtualize and consolidate our data centers to reduce our operation costs and increase revenue.

As part of this your server has been selected as a candidate for virtualization and decommissioning.  You have ten days to respond to this email, escalating any operational issues as to why your server cannot be virtualized. If you do not, I hereby grant permission to IT to virtualize and recycle the physical server as part of this programme.

Regards

CEO’s name”

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