Virtualization Economics: Balancing Risk and Efficiency
February 2010

Andrew Hillier, CiRBA’s CTO & Co-Founder presents:

Virtualization Economics: Balancing Risk and Efficiency through Intelligent Workload Placements and Resource Allocations

Virtualization significantly changes the economics of constructing and operating IT environments.  But the gains in efficiency that lead to greatest cost savings don’t come easily.  Many of the contributors to promised savings, such as reduction in physical hardware and the corresponding savings in power and cooling, are important drivers for virtualization initiatives but are often not realized either at the time of deployment or on an  ongoing basis.  Often in an attempt to avoid risk, organizations will oversize infrastructure, avoiding potential performance problems but eroding the benefits of a transformation.  The challenge facing organizations is how to efficiently transform infrastructure while mitigating risk. The key to addressing this challenge is the intelligent placement of workloads and allocation of resources within virtual infrastructure.

50 minutes - 35MB WMV format.
NOTE: There are no visuals for the first 2.5min of this recording.