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The journey framework that I have been covering in the posts of this blog is applicable to both large and small and medium enterprise, say less than a 1000 people. The main difference between small and large enterprises is the speed at which SMBs move. Most of the ones we interviewed said they went from […]
March 23, 2010
Today I met with two more CIOs, both with a pretty mature virtualization environment. One is aggressively virtualizing in-house built customer facing applications, the second one is stepping up the virtualization of their SAP implementation. Virtualization Business Metric Best Practice They both brough up a business best practice that I heard before: Define and track […]
March 22, 2010
I am in Phoenix at the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum where tomorrow I will be introducing a customer of ours to talk about their virtualization journey. Today I hosted a lunch with 4 CIO and took some random notes. Resistance is Futile Three of the CIOs at the table are >80% virtualized, in other words […]
March 17, 2010
The transition from IT Production to Business Production is the most critical inflection point in the customer virtualization Journey. As I was collecting my thoughts on best practices around this transition I ran into this post by Seth Godin which I think is very apropos The Forces of Mediocrity by Seth Godin But seriously, any […]
March 12, 2010
In my previous post I talked about some of the main best practices that customers use in the IT production phase of their virtualization journey. I dug some more into the archive of customer interviews and found these additional ones. Some are interesting. Virtualization Friendly Chargeback Many, many customers use this best practice to foster […]
March 2, 2010
As I discusses in this post, IT production is the first phase in the virtualization journey. Here are some of the IT Production best practices we learned from our customers. Don’t Skip IT Production The first best practice is not to skip this stage as it helps the team build up the expertise and experience […]
March 26, 2010
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