Virtual Desktop Pilot

Education application of virtual desktops shows positive results. ...

... "They've actually been using Netbooks and VDI for a proof of concept project in the classroom. Kids and teachers like it, and she says the financial models are pretty compelling. " ...

Via InformationWeek: VDI And Netbooks

Working Capital Impact

Target comatose servers to reduce capital requirements and ultimately increase energy efficiency. ...

. .. "Every comatose commodity server shut down or eliminated by consolidation or physical virtualization, recovers between $1,500 and $2,500 in CapEx capacity. " ...

Via Forbes: IT Energy

Night of the Living Dead

Finish that upgrade or implementation project? Didja retire the legacy system or infrastructure that it replaced? Oops. You've got zombies. And, they're costing you ... big-time. ...

... "I'm talking about zombie servers, machines that, for whatever reason, have been left in the rack, powered on but doing very little or no work whatsoever. " ...

Via InfoWorld: Slay your zombies

References for Project Proposals

Checking references, reference visits, and other external benchmarks are helpful to demonstrating to your governance team that you have done your homework with regards to outside-in perspectives. ...

... "Use reference visits to similar organisations to reassure your management. Best of all, put them in touch with their peers such as CFOs in those other companies to see how they view virtualization. " ...

Via DaniWeb: Virtualization

Organize for Virtualization Success

A virtualized environment offers the ability to achieve significant scalability. Benchmarks and heuristics can help you assess the future state model for your organization post-implementation. ...

... "Management team: 15 percent of IT groups are creating a dedicated team, often called the virtual computing team, that brings together experts from various IT disciplines to manage the overall virtualization effort ... " ...

Via CIO: Benchmarks