Mike Vizard Discusses Cloud Computing and the Cost of Virtualization
November 19, 2010 No CommentsAlthough most IT organizations are still in the early stages of testing out the concept, the shift toward private cloud computing is also going to cause more than a few IT organizations to rethink their virtualization strategies.
One of the issues confronting IT organizations as they embrace cloud computing is how dependent the whole model is on virtual machine software. That in and of itself is not a bad thing. But the potential cost of the virtual machine software that will need to be deployed both on premise and on public cloud computing infrastructure is giving some IT organizations cause for pause.