Vic Nyman

Applications Become Center-Stage with Virtualization Growth

This article appears in whole at Virtual Strategy Magazine

Throughout 2009, virtualization will continue to be disruptive and impact IT management on multiple fronts. 

First, VM Administrators and IT Management will be pushed to drive ROI from virtualization efforts. 

Second, managing business applications will stress relations between Application Owners (those responsible for keeping applications available and performing well), and VM Administrators/IT Management (who are pushing to convert more servers - especially those with business-critical applications running on them.) 

This culminates in application management becoming a focal point - as the data center becomes more dynamic, with pieces of applications and services using a variety of resources for businesses to realize ROI from their virtualization efforts and drive business efficiency.
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