Virtualization's Promise And Problems
Posted by
Charles Babcock
May 16, 2008
VMsafe, sHype trusted computing concepts, and other measures are ensuring that virtualization continues to spread throughout the enterprise and, with proper management, will thrive there. As virtualized desktops link with virtual servers in the data center, it will be important that each element of the infrastructure is planned to work with the others and managed effectively.
If it's done any other way, then Forrester Research's "tipping point," instead of proclaiming virtualization's rapid adoption, could come to mean something else entirely: the point where the adoption rate grew beyond IT's ability to control it.
Virtualization's Uneasy Alliance
