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Getting Real on Virtualisation
Simon Perry Principal Associate Analyst - Sustainability
Market Drivers
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Budget restraint
Power, floorspace and
cooling
Storage complexity
Agility
Existing hardware
performance value
physical
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virtual
virtual
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Floorspace
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Power
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Causal relationships
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Agility
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Misconceptions
Virtualisation is “green”
Virtualisation will solve all data centre power and heat problems
Virtualisation reduces infrastructure
management issues © 2009 Quocirca Ltd
Things to watch for
Security Tendency to spawn
Balancing workload
requirements
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Planning avoids many problems
About Quocirca
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