Energize and Save, Tod Nielsen, Chief Operating Officer, VMWare, opening keynote
Todd starts by talking about all of the government agencies VMWare works with. The list is extensive. One example, the CIA is virtualizing 4000 servers, saving millions in capital and energy costs.
Gartner factoid, 89% of virtualized apps run on VMWare (dated December 2008).
Early in virtualization journey, 0 – 20% virtualized, the big savings is Capex. These projects are typically for IT owned assets, file and print, mail etc. Next phase, is line of business applications, the concerns here shift from just capex to “speeds and feeds”, business continuity, up-time. Often, these are less critical, tier 2 and 3 applications. Todd shares anecdote of organization where CIO was concerned that tier 2 and 3 had better up-time than tier 1, response tiers 2 – 3 are virtualized, was driver for tier 1 virtualization as well. So, capex, energy and up-time.
