Virtualization

Virtualization: Blessing or Curse?

Managing virtualization at a large scale is fraught with hidden challenges.

Evangelos Kotsovinos, VP at Morgan Stanley in charge of virtualization and cloud-computing engineering, uncovers the hidden challenges of virtualization.

Virtualization is often touted as the solution to many challenging problems, from resource underutilization to data-center optimization and carbon emission reduction. The hidden costs of virtualization, largely stemming from the complex and difficult system administration challenges it poses, are often overlooked, however. Reaping the fruits of virtualization requires the enterprise to navigate scalability limitations, revamp traditional operational practices, manage performance, and achieve unprecedented cross-silo collaboration. Virtualization is not a curse: it can bring material benefits, but only to the prepared.

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01 August 2011

Posted by: Netuitive

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virtualization, data, performance