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I was having a chat with one of my friends (he works at a senior level in an enterprise) over lunch I was asking him his thoughts on server virtualization, he replied, “..virtualization’s old news, we’re now talking about how to get cloud to work in our enterprise, how we can put applications down the wire to the trader abstracted from the infrastructure (this includes the desktop). I also want to look at data center virtualization, we really need to move our virtual platforms on to the next level, continue with application virtualization to the point at which we can move the data center around the globe, have our IT follow the sun, just like our business, or in fact (as one of the accounts guys had said, make it go the opposite way so power is cheaper).”

It will be interesting to see what happens going forward in this enterprise, I’ll update the blog as I hear more.  We need to stay on message though, and understand that not everyone is in the same place with their IT, their infrastructure, where one enterprise has completed their server virtualization and consolidation project, many are just wondering if virtualization might work for them.

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