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f you’re making or have made a significant investment in virtualisation however, your natural instinct will be to sweat the assets rather than jump into the latest trend. And if you’re role is integral to the running of a data centre, just entertaining the thought of cloud computing can seem like turkeys voting for Christmas. But, like it or not, your migration from virtualisation to cloud computing will probably already feature somewhere in your organisation’s business plan. Knowing how to navigate and evolve with this journey, without jeopardising existing investments (or your job), will emphasise the significance IT plays in the efficiency and future profitability of your business.
Below are some recommendations and discussion points on how you can bridge the gap from virtualisation to cloud computing, optimising existing investments in the process and creating a roadmap migration to suit your business needs.
Virtualisation: It’s payback time You’ve invested in virtualisation; tackled the challenges of data centre sprawl, energy consumption, faster provisioning of business IT services, and driving down support costs.
Your business is urging you to investigate the opportunities and implementation of cloud, but in parallel, you need to ensure that investments already made are delivering on the promise. The lifecycle of owning, operating and optimising virtual infrastructures, must deliver maximum and sustainable business advantage. Your future cloud architecture will utilise some, or all of your existing virtual estate – implementing the right management framework and tuning techniques now will put you in good stead for private cloud.
It is evident, however, from issues such as the disconnect between virtual infrastructures and multiple support contracts with differing
Bridging the Gap: From virtualisation to
cloud computing (turkeys need not apply)
It’s nigh on impossible to ignore the question of cloud computing – no doubt your CEO is already
asking when, not if. By Simon Daykin, CTO of Logicalis UK.
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