Gartner Symposium & 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; this wasn’t 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 how IT maturity plays a larger role than ever, especially when preparing for new and very transformational IT models such as cloud.
Another theme that reoccurred at the Gartner event was that the decisions that IT is making in virtualization today sets the stage and ability for IT cloud in the future. 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 additional value at a lower cost.
CA launched some very important products today that support these themes from Gartner ITxpo. The 12 new and enhanced
virtualization management products are designed to assist the enterprise in harnessing virtualization’s full potential, as well as preparing the enterprise for the next generation data center, which includes cloud.