Comments on: Driving A Successful Virtualization Adaption http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/vwire/driving-a-successful-virtualization-adaption The Virtual Black Hole Sat, 13 Mar 2010 11:25:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Steve http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/vwire/driving-a-successful-virtualization-adaption#comment-6262 Steve Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:38:15 +0000 http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/?p=796#comment-6262 Good point and good post Steve!! I guess I miss that being that I am usually the one with the vision and guidance, but you are absolutely correct. Cheers, Steve Good point and good post Steve!! I guess I miss that being that I am usually the one with the vision and guidance, but you are absolutely correct.

Cheers,

Steve

]]> By: Steve Kaplan http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/vwire/driving-a-successful-virtualization-adaption#comment-6261 Steve Kaplan Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:26:20 +0000 http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/?p=796#comment-6261 I believe you are missing a vital component to a successful "journey" which is to start off with a map of where you want to go. As nearly all organizations are economically driven, this inevitably entails an ROI analysis as part of the envisioning/planning process. Here is my take: http://www.bythebell.com/2009/10/the-antidote-to-virtualization-politics-it-leadership.html I believe you are missing a vital component to a successful “journey” which is to start off with a map of where you want to go. As nearly all organizations are economically driven, this inevitably entails an ROI analysis as part of the envisioning/planning process. Here is my take: http://www.bythebell.com/2009/10/the-antidote-to-virtualization-politics-it-leadership.html

]]> By: Twitter Trackbacks for Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Driving A Successful Virtualization Adaption [thevirtualblackhole.com] on Topsy.com http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/vwire/driving-a-successful-virtualization-adaption#comment-6260 Twitter Trackbacks for Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Driving A Successful Virtualization Adaption [thevirtualblackhole.com] on Topsy.com Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:48:28 +0000 http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/?p=796#comment-6260 [...] Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Driving A Successful Virtualization Adaption www.thevirtualblackhole.com/vwire/driving-a-successful-virtualization-adaption – view page – cached This week’s VMTN podcast was Title: #69 - The Virtualization Journey with Vittorio Viarengo was a discussion about the steps for driving a successful virtualization adaption. You can also download... (Read more)This week’s VMTN podcast was Title: #69 - The Virtualization Journey with Vittorio Viarengo was a discussion about the steps for driving a successful virtualization adaption. You can also download the podcast on iTunes. For years now I have had a tag line that I use. It’s my motto, if you will, and goes like this: “Virtualization is a journey, not a project.” Profound isn’t it? This is something I firmly believe in and have been preaching over the years. The idea is that there are steps that happen during this virtualization journey that happened at the different stages of your deployment. Without a doubt the first step is having the front line people, namely the administrators that will build, control and support the environment. Vittorio continued with the second step of getting the application owners on board as well as some trust in the infrastructure so that over time virtualization will become more accepted and would be the first thing the application owners would choose going forward. He went on to his third step of getting the C level manager or director on board and committed to virtualization moving forward to establish a virtual machine first policy in the infrastructure. (Read less) — From the page [...] [...] Virtual Black Hole » Blog Archive » Driving A Successful Virtualization Adaption http://www.thevirtualblackhole.com/vwire/driving-a-successful-virtualization-adaption – view page – cached This week’s VMTN podcast was Title: #69 - The Virtualization Journey with Vittorio Viarengo was a discussion about the steps for driving a successful virtualization adaption. You can also download… (Read more)This week’s VMTN podcast was Title: #69 - The Virtualization Journey with Vittorio Viarengo was a discussion about the steps for driving a successful virtualization adaption. You can also download the podcast on iTunes. For years now I have had a tag line that I use. It’s my motto, if you will, and goes like this: “Virtualization is a journey, not a project.” Profound isn’t it? This is something I firmly believe in and have been preaching over the years. The idea is that there are steps that happen during this virtualization journey that happened at the different stages of your deployment. Without a doubt the first step is having the front line people, namely the administrators that will build, control and support the environment. Vittorio continued with the second step of getting the application owners on board as well as some trust in the infrastructure so that over time virtualization will become more accepted and would be the first thing the application owners would choose going forward. He went on to his third step of getting the C level manager or director on board and committed to virtualization moving forward to establish a virtual machine first policy in the infrastructure. (Read less) — From the page [...]

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