Polluter pays the bill

Cheaper hardware and advances in network connectivity is a major reason for the large number of Intel servers. These are more like PCs on steroids, which make the low utilization plausible and is an indication for the simplicity to virtualize them all at once. This revolution has made Microsoft fat but brought us little savings. Additional requirements for security and availability ensure other components are expanded.
 
All this is not because the IT department wants that so badly, but simply because the business demand for it. With distributed processing is the genie out of the bottle and we have a growing need for IT resources. Of course the customer is king, but they should not behave like the jester.

Globalize your server sprawl

Are you ready to globalize your server sprawl? Want to chase your data around the world? Guess not, but it’s again about the everlasting dance between CapEx and OpEx and now we are encouraged to breakthrough the walls of the datacentre. Despite my 'virtualization atheism' I wouldn’t say it's all a lie, as we're doing a lot more for less. More complexity, security, specialization and licensing in less square footage for example.

Even Cloud Computing make us more trouble ahead, it’s not really a turnaround. Only differentiator is in how costs are charged. This is not something revolutionary, but was common in those days computer cycles where expensive. Unfortunately, that became out of fashion with distributed processing. So the genie is out of the bottle by decentralizing processing and now we have an ever-increasing need for IT resources.

Cloud adoption

If the noise around cloud computing has passed to you, you've probably been somewhere that had no Internet, papers, radio or phone. But anyone who is not in a place like Guantánamo Bay certainly could not have missed all the great benefits of cloud computing. Sometimes it seems that everyone has been commissioned to shout the cloud. It's almost  a shame that most companies are still hesitant about the cloud and at best give it a try.  

While most companies have to digest virtualization cloud marketers gradually begin to outvoice each other. Perhaps it's now a moment to listen to the market.