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Early Movers

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May 3, 2012

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Early Movers
Virtual Host Sprawl
Skyrocketing OPEX
Testing Overkill
New Disaster Recovery Plan in the Works
Complex Service Agreements to Fulfill
Servers Getting Elderly
Cost Trimming
Licensing Re-Up Decisions to Be Made
Standard or Alternative?

Early Movers

You were an early and aggressive adopter of virtual infrastructure.

Virtual Host Sprawl

You have more than 100 virtual hosts, and the number is growing more than 25 percent a year.

Skyrocketing OPEX

Your virtual infrastructure costs are growing faster than your budget.

Testing Overkill

You have a large virtualized test and development environment.

New Disaster Recovery Plan in the Works

You have a disaster recovery initiative on the horizon.

Complex Service Agreements to Fulfill

You have multiple service-level agreements (SLAs) and many applications to support 24/7.

Servers Getting Elderly

You have a sizable server hardware refresh project planned.

Cost Trimming

You have an IT cost-reduction initiative in process.

Licensing Re-Up Decisions to Be Made

You have VMware Enterprise License Agreement renewal in the next 12 months.

Standard or Alternative?

You already have an Enterprise License Renewal with Microsoft or Red Hat for Windows or Linux.

Chris Preimesberger

Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.