Users: Virtualization requires planning and investment

11.09.2006

"However, be prepared to spend money and resources in order to get returns.

"Investment costs depend on what infrastructure you select; you can do it cheap and nasty, but you'll probably get a cheap and nasty result."

Williams said his biggest problem is that the organization has legacy Web sites supported by legacy operating systems.

"So for us to change that we need an entire re-write as they are built on sloppy design and based on drivers that don't exist," he said.

"Deployment is a big issue for us, because we can win a project today and tomorrow we start coding; virtualization will help us provision equipment quickly."