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Getting Real on Virtualisation

Simon Perry Principal Associate Analyst - Sustainability

Market Drivers

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Budget restraint

Power, floorspace and

cooling

Storage complexity

Agility

Existing hardware

performance value

physical

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Floorspace

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Power

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Causal relationships

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Agility

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Misconceptions

Virtualisation is “green”

Virtualisation will solve all data centre power and heat problems

Virtualisation reduces infrastructure

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Things to watch for

Security Tendency to spawn

Balancing workload

requirements

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Planning avoids many problems

About Quocirca

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