The virtues of virtualisation
Una Du Noyer, Head of Infrastructure and Security, Capgemini explains that external factors are influencing the move towards centralised and virtualised storage.
22 February 2007
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The age of virtualisation is being heralded as the future model which IT will support high-performance organisations and offers a flexible and efficient way of delivering IT processing power and applications.
According to Una “while management, control and efficient use of storage resources are big drivers for change in the eyes of the IT department, outside factors are also influencing the move towards centralised and virtualised storage”.
Una goes onto to comment that “Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a huge buzz in the marketplace that everybody wants to embrace, and without storage virtualisation, ILM is impossible to implement”
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Una has acted as lead IT architect on a number of large-scale global IT roll-outs for blue chip clients. She is a Capgemini global spokesperson for infrastructure related issues, including grid and utility computing. To read the rest of her bio, click here.
