I continue to hear fears from IT professionals when it comes to server virtualization. Virtual machines do provide corporate infrastructure scalability. VM can also be used to create redundancies within your network as a component of a continuous availability architecture.
Fears come from the unknown. Discussions of server proliferation and lack of control is really a function of the IT change and configuration management processes. Many IT professionals talk about change management but fail to take the necessary steps in defining and enforcing governance of the change and configuration management processes. Don't get me wrong. The fears are accurate and relevant but can be managed. Risk will never be totally avoided.
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