Ed Bugnion of Cisco on Virtualization Trends | VMworld 2010
Ed Bugnion, VP/CTO, SAVBU at Cisco Systems from theCube, live from VMworld 2010 in SF. Ed who was one of the founders and CTO of VMware gives his unique perspective on virtualization. Virtualization started in the data center as a way to boost utilization and cut costs dramatically, cutting the number of boxes needed to support operations. Early case histories provided dramatic stories of companies able to add years of live to their data centers and in some cases cut the number of data centers they needed drastically. Then with the advent of cloud computing and private as well as the public cloud, virtualization is playing a key role in supporting much greater agility, giving IT the ability to shift resources at lightning speed -- often hours rather than weeks -- and much lower expense, to meet changing business demands. However, two top executives from Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks group, speaking in an interview with Wikibon.org founder and CEO David Vellante on Siliconangle.tv from VMworld (http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/hps-dave-roberson-and-paul-perez-vmworld-2010), said that virtualization is also playing other roles in terms of unifying data operations and changing the very paradigm of data center computing. And it is also going to have a major impact on the organization of the data center and require that the technicians who run virtualized environments learn new, converged skills. See the full article, "HP: Virtualization is Changing the Game on Multiple Levels" by BERT LATAMORE, and more on Virtualization, here: http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/09/24/hp-virtualization-is-changing-the-game-on-multiple-levels/