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Globalization is taking over all the industries and challenges faced by the companies are increasing during this economic downturn. It’s time for top management to evaluate technologies to give their companies a renewed competitive direction. For many businesses in Miami competing in global markets, it is important a strategic revision of their current logistics structure and found new ways to leverage on technological advances to create distinctive advantages against competitors. One of the greatest tools we may find within these new technological resources is the use of virtual teams and virtualization.

Virtualization is a concept that is expanding due the advances on Internet applications. Virtualization allows the company to dramatically improve performance due the creation of a new working environment where the geographic dependency no longer exists, where cultural issues are minimized and the levels of work optimization are increased.

Virtualization can be suitable for small, medium or large companies. With this concept, virtual teams can effectively communicate and interact using a set of web conference tools, run multiple applications and tests, maintain control of the variables and status of projects, orders, shipping, etc.

Check out this article talking about virtualization, it can be a vehicle for reducing costs, for improving delivery, interestingly though (and not being negative), I wonder if we could achieve similar though (granted less exciting and automated/dynamic results) by simply working with what we have to stabilize the core and move on from there. Simple steps like bringing everything up to date, applying best practice configurations and optimizing each server for it’s role, be it a domain controller, a file or application server, even little steps can move your server estate from a high maintenance one, to one that might not be the most up to date, that might be ‘out of support’ but configured and optimized to the best levels that it can be. Let us not under estimate that even if your infrastructure is ‘out of support’, running Windows NT4 on 7 year old servers, that we ‘stabilize the core’, that they have the latest firmware, the latest drivers and security patches, that there’s enough disk space and the page file settings, the disks are defragmented and the settings are just right on a per server/application basis can be the difference between delivery and significant investment.

We need to continue evolving the infrastructure absolutely. But as an IT professional and a business person, we need to achieve the most at the lowest possible cost, spending money is fine providing the returns on investment and opportunity costs are in line with with the capital investment. In essence we need to continue investing in right sized infrastructure for our business, which could be four DL380 G6′s instead of eleven DL580 G1′s, running a mixture of virtual and physical servers. The debate is set to continue and will depend on your business.

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