Virtualization is Virtually the Key to the Future

Jul.27, 2008 in Business Continuity

"We Don’t Have the Money". How many times have you uttered that weary complaint when someone tried to sell you something new? Well, her’s the thing about virtualization. It does more and costs less. It does things better and costs less. It makes servers simpler to operate and costs less.

So the way I see it, you have two choices … get on the train or get left behind. You don’t want to be left standing on the platform, do you? If your company gets downsized or gets gobbled in a merger, how do you think they will decide which IT people to keep and which to cut? It won’t be the ones who saved the most, it will be the ones who DID the most.

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By Lee Pender
First, an editor’s note: I’ll be on the vacation for the next few weeks. A real vacation — one that doesn’t involve checking e-mail or listening to voice mails. (Yes, those vacations still exist — or, at least, I think they do. I guess I’ll find out.) Anyway, RCP Editor-in-Chief Scott Bekker will be taking over RCPU until I return roundabout the middle of August. Bekker’s a fly blogger with mad skillz… Seriously, he’s very good, and I just hope that he doesn’t steal my regular audience of readers (or, in any case, that he gives you back to me when I return). Enjoy his stuff, and I’ll see you in August. And thanks, as always, for reading, even in the dog days of summer.

Let’s not even pretend that this has been an interesting news week for Microsoft followers. Tonight’s earnings will provide plenty of fodder, sure — but, for the time being, it’s a famine after last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference news feast.

So, today, we have the final pieces of Microsoft’s virtualization product offering falling into place. Specifically, we now know that Virtual Machine Manager will ship in the fourth quarter of calendar 2008 and will not have to be bundled with the over-named System Center Server Management Suite Enterprise.

So, whether you’re psyched about Hyper-V or less than enthused, at least now you know more of the details. And that’s what’s passing for news this week. (Click here to comment.)

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