Last month at Microsoft TechEd 2011, I presented the topic of Accelerating Your Journey to the Private Cloud based on Microsoft virtualization and EMC technologies. Below is a recap of this presentation, the full audio version and slides can be found at the Microsoft TechEd website or a replay of this presentation is also available at the Windows IT Pro website. First it is important to understand the phases that EMC believes all companies go through when virtualizing their datacenter, regardless of the technologies used or the size of the company. The journey to virtualization consists of three phases which are related to the amount of virtualization that has occurred. The first phase consists of virtualizing IT Production applications. In this first phase customers begin virtualizing and expand this to include up to 30% of their workloads. The second phase involves virtualizing Business Production applications as companies virtualize up to 50% to 85% of their environment. The third phase is IT as a Service and allows companies to run IT as a business with 95% or more virtualization in the environment.
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Accelerating Your Journey to Microsoft Virtualization
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