This morning I had the great pleasure to present the division’s virtualization initiatives to an illustrious group of over a thousand Minnesotan technologists at the Virtualization Forum. Prior to my talk they were treated to Srinivas Krishnamurti from VMWare introducing vSphere 4, we then heard from an industry analyst on trends in the adoption of the internal cloud virtualization technologies as well as some lessons learned. The presentations seemed very well received, the audience seemed to enjoy putting the ecological impact in terms of planting 25 square miles of forest or removing 1500 Hummers from the highways, and they also seemed to resonate with the notion that virtualization provides a rare opportunity for the infrastructure and operations teams to make a huge positive impact on the business P&L (300M$).Next week I am travelling to Pebble Beach to present to a group of executives on the way to develop the business case for virtualization.
2 comments:
That was a great talk you gave - I think it even trumped the vSphere intro. It was fascinating to hear about a project on that scale going on in our own back yard. I've almost completed the same thing on a comparatively microscopic scale (about 100 servers), and it was interesting to hear about how much of the same strategies and experiences scale up.
Yes, I agree.
It was a facinating view of a very large project with some real savings. It is amazing to try to wrap your head around something of that scale.
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