In previous posts, I covered the 3 main stages of virtualization adoption, I drilled down into the IT Production Phase and gave an overview of the Business Production phase. The transition from IT production to Business Production is the most critical part of the virtualization journey and many customers are dealing with it right now.… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
In previous posts, I covered the 3 main stages of virtualization adoption and the key elements driving the virtualization journey. Just a reminder that most of the material in these posts comes directly from our customers through a primary research project that we carried out last summer. Let’s now double-click on the Business Production phase.… [Read more…]
March 12, 2010
In my previous post I talked about some of the main best practices that customers use in the IT production phase of their virtualization journey. I dug some more into the archive of customer interviews and found these additional ones. Some are interesting. Virtualization Friendly Chargeback Many, many customers use this best practice to foster… [Read more…]
February 23, 2010
I was reading the white paper that is reachable from this site that our colleagues in the UK launched today. It is about removing IT from the boardroom agenda, which is a little counter intuitive. As IT professionals we do want IT to be strategic to our business but too often we end up on… [Read more…]
January 5, 2010
In previous posts, I covered the 3 main stages of virtualization adoption and the key elements driving the virtualization journey. Just a reminder that most of the material in these posts comes directly from our customers through a primary research project that we carried out last summer. Let’s now double-click on the IT Production phase.… [Read more…]
December 19, 2009
Now that I got your attention…. let’s talk about a couple if customer interviews where virtualizing production databases came up and the first step of their journey. In the Customer Journey stages post, I covered how the majority of the customers we interviewed start their journey in the IT production stage where they virtualize test… [Read more…]
December 3, 2009
In the “Key Adoption Drivers” post, I covered what the main drivers for virtualization adoption are and in the “Virtualization Journey Stages” post we saw how the virtualization journey evolves along three main stages that are characterized by: Different type of applications being virtualized (IT infrastructure, test and dev, business applications, databases…) Level of organizational… [Read more…]
April 19, 2010
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