The Virtual Divide: Systems Management vs. Virtualization Optimization

Virtualization is one of the most disruptive trends in IT today, and it’s going through a major change.

EMA’s Andi Mann, recently told us that about a quarter of all implementations of virtualization are outside of test and development. And this number is growing quickly. This means that there are newfound pressures for production ready virtualization implementations to succeed - success factors that have typically been outside the realm of test and development environments. Two of the main drivers inadequately addressed by the market are security and systems management. Many people are picking up on the security - but what baffles me is people aren’t talking more about the systems management problem with this new architecture.

1 comment April 18th, 2007 javier