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Gartner ITxpo wrapped up last week in Orlando Florida and, as
expected, pressed on some very key issues for IT primarily for the enterprise
audience. Included in those were a
lot around cloud and virtualization, not a big surprise. The sessions on cloud were numerous and
all well attended - the analysts covered what seemed to be every possible angle
from the enterprise adoption viewpoint including associated risks, benefits,
adoption models, maturity, public vs. private vs. hybrid, etc... Management of these complex cloud
models, from both the enterprise and service provide perspective, seemed to be
a consistent theme among the half dozen, or so, sessions I attended on
cloud. I thought it was very
interesting on how IT maturity plays a larger role than ever, especially when
preparing or new and very transformational IT models such as cloud. CA is launching some very important
products and this week to support management of virtualization (http://ca.com/virtualization) in line
with assisting the enterprise in harnessing virtualization's full potential, as
well as preparing for the next generation data center, such as cloud. A theme that reoccurred at the Gartner
event was that the decisions that IT is making in virtualization today, sets
the stage for what IT will deliver in computing models, such as cloud, that
rely on the foundation of virtualization technologies, all driven by management
and automation of virtualization into the existing fabric of IT. In essence, well-managed virtualization
is one step closer in maturity towards successfully adopting and realizing the
benefits of a private, public or hybrid cloud model into your IT strategy of
delivering more value at a lower cost.