Waiting out virtualization problems

Wait out the problems with virtualization before fully committing to it, according to a Gartner analyst speaking at Gartner's infrastructure, operations and data centre summit in Sydney, Australia. Those problems, which include licensing, support, emerging technologies, cost and the lack of enough good virtualization vendors, are big hurdles. In the meantime, businesses should build strong data center governance strategies to ward off vendors vying for third-party control of virtualization. Doing so will prevent you from getting locked into one vendor. But virtualization will be part of nearly every aspect of IT by 2015, so it's time to start asking vendors questions about how they will accommodate their applications with the new technology.

Read more about why companies should wait before committing to virtualization:
- read the article at Computerworld Australia

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