IT as a Weapon: How to determine the Value of Virtualization Part 1
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Although many datacenter and storage managers are looking for solutions such as storage virtualization to simplify operations and streamline the infrastructure, I am finding that most are having a difficult time in figuring out how to qualify the upfront expenditures of buying a virtualization solution vs. the return on investment that is needed to sell the solution up through the management chain. Many upper level managers may be strictly focused on the bottom line, and may perceive solutions that make life easier for IT operations as unimportant. What they are missing, and what operations managers are failing to communicate up the chain, is how virtualization solutions can have a significant impact on cost savings for the company. (more…)