The SECOND Happiest Place on Earth
EMC World 2009 in Orlando - it’s got to be the SECOND happiest place on Earth this week. The first place, of course, resides down the street and -
The SECOND Happiest Place on Earth? EMC World, Of Course!
while we may be a bit goofy here - the wide international participation does remind us that it IS a small world (after all). But I digress, as usual.
With the bottom of the current recession either directly in sight or firmly in the rear view mirror, our real vision can now turn to the tremendous opportunity right in front of us. As the keynotes for EMC World played out yesterday morning, it’s clear that virtualization holds the promise to do much more than consolidate servers and save precious capex dollars. That’s all great, but we’ve already reaped many of those benefits. Its true promise was clearly stated by Paul Maritz in his joint keynote with Joe Tucci when he said that virtualization and vSphere can usher in “a better way of doing computing” resulting in what in effect becomes a “single giant computer.”
And we are here. Now, doesn’t that make you happy?
Journey: No, Not the Band
The theme of a journey is real and we are at the start of a big one. Joe and Paul laid out the path and it leads to the private cloud…And it’s powered by virtualization, automation, and federation.
New and better IT management needs to be a huge part of that journey from the start. The path becomes a lot clearer when you have the insight to know where you are, what you have, and how it all fits together. Insight that pulls virtualization into the context of your data center today - applications, servers, storage - and points you forward on how to employ new best practices and new processes.
If you’re at the show this week, check out the demonstrations and sessions on ControlCenter, Application Discovery Manager, Smarts Server Manager, and Server Configuration Manager for unparalleled insight into the virtualized data center.
Wheel in the Sky
So, back to the other Journey now (yes, I am SF-based), the wheel in the sky is turning and driving all sorts of benefits from the cloud to the data center and the data center back to the cloud. Paul Maritz calls out some of the areas where the data center can learn from service providers and cloud computing:
- Understanding who’s using what and when
- Tracking application loads, usage
- Providing a portal for users to request services, self-service IT
- Chargeback and billing
The virtualization journey shouldn’t be a rocky one, but a happy one. Take a virtualization lens to your existing IT management tools and processes and see if they measure up and are giving you the dynamic insight necessary for the virtualization journey ahead.
I’d love to know what you think…
Bob Quillin
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