Chad's big picture: where this train is headed
EMC's Chad Sakac follows up his multi-vendor iSCSI mega-post with the view from 50,000 feet.
Virtual Geek: So... What's the BIG picture stuff going on under the covers?.
Virtual Geek: So... What's the BIG picture stuff going on under the covers?.
Customers are telling me consistently that they are looking to transform to a new datacenter and IT model. They use different words when describing it. Here are some variants:
- "I want to make IT a service back to the business - literally with an SLA model"
- "I see technologies coming together to enable something... I don't know what to call it except 'global datacenter optimization'"
They know they need to do it for all those reasons, but no-one wants to undertake one of those "here's a vision - now stay with me and one day you will benefit" efforts - particularly these days.
- They need to save money at every step - constant capital expense saving.
- They need to become faster, more flexible at every step - constant refinement in both operational expense and speed.
- They need to use less power and become more green at every step
- We've all been around the block enough to know it's got to be open, built on standards (Scott Lowe was totally right on that here)
Posted by VMTN on February 2, 2009 in virtualization futures
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