VM2201

Turfwars! : The Future Staffing of Virtualized Environments

With the Virtualization Industry moving out of startup ideas to mainstream implementation in the enterprise , there are new challenges of how your company will grow in the next implementation of virtualization. One thing certain to grow is the in-fighting of teams that were previously responsible for their 'Silo' which is now being encroached on from other teams with this 'Virtualization Stuff'.
The encroachment has many forms and could be happening simultaneously within your IT Support teams. The size of the organization and the maturity of the virtualization implementation factors into the equation of how many teams and how many silos are being affected by these industry changes. Data Center Consolidations, Virtual Desktop refresh projects, Application Virtualization for Call Centers or remote workers, could all be happening at the same time within the IT organization. All of these projects will require teamwork and coordination to get the most benefit for your organization.
Establishing an ?A-Team? of engineers and analysts can provide a sounding board for incoming projects and provide an organizational method to focus efforts and gain exposure into the impact of project work that is a result of virtualization.
With the arrival of the concept of ?Cloud Computing? this A-Team will be tasked into identifying the benefits of a service that is created internally or released to a third party for administration in a remote datacenter.

Virtualization Management

Breakout Session

Future Staffing, Virtualized Environments

1 Hour

John Blessing, System Engineer, Cintas Corporation