| VMware Whitepaper: The Roadmap to Virtual Infrastructure |
| Tuesday, 29 August 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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"Based on the experiences of our customers, implementing virtual infrastructure is completely doable and manageable. However, because virtualization is still a relatively new technology that can touch a broad set of IT stakeholders and processes, cultural resistance can stall or limit many deployments, particularly in larger enterprise organizations. Thus we recommend that IT managers proactively obtain a big picture understanding of the organizational charter, technical skills and processes that can maximize and accelerate the benefits of virtual infrastructure." "The target audience for this paper is senior IT managers. The recommendations outlined here provide IT management with the most salient best practices and implementation strategies to get started and to accelerate a successful roll out of virtualization technology. These guidelines are based on experiences and best practices accumulated by many of our leading customers and partners. We cover organizational charter, stakeholder buy-in strategies to ease the common non-technical resistance that can affect virtualization rollouts. We also highlight key areas of IT infrastructure and operations most impacted by virtualization. We include some actionable next steps and templates for how to build an effective virtualization support team, assess readiness of your organization to adopt virtualization, and scope initial projects to help ensure success and develop your organization’s capabilities for broader virtualization deployment." "This paper is intended as a starter guide and complements a broader set of literature that provides additional information required for virtual infrastructure technical design, project planning, scoping, and implementation." Read whitepapaer here. (registration required)
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