CIOs and IT need 'virtualization' to do 'virtually' everything
In addition to constantly responding to changing business requirements from increasingly demanding marketing and product management executives, IT organizations need to improve time to service, simplify networks, reduce energy use, and lower costs. Virtualization increasingly is becoming the key
In the communications industry, there is no doubt that provisioning of applications and services is very arduous—often fraught with problems attributable to human error, complicated processes and hardware issues. Avaya today announced its “virtualization strategy” for provisioning, adding, deleting or changing applications.
Virtualization is, indeed, growing in popularity as players like Cisco, NEC, Nortel, Microsoft, Avaya and others battle to win the business-communications market. Whether telecom or other sectors, there’s no secret that IT organizations need sophisticated data networking architectures that help to optimize deployments in and between data centers, as business users increasingly complain of issues that hinder their ability to collaborate using new applications and services.
Since approximately 37% of downtime in the network is attributable to human errors (Yankee Group), this Avaya solution is an example of how a virtualized architecture or “private cloud” aims to reduce the number of network re-designs IT has to do when marketing or other business units demand changes or new services. The goal is to streamline provisioning and policy configuration tasks that often mar the launch of new or improved applications and services. Telecom business users—whether marketing, product development, finance, or others—need reliable connections from their desktops to enterprise data centers, and their IT support groups need to protect core networks from failures. And so it seems with “virtualization,” there is a lot of energy being dedicated to establishing the optimal network connections among application servers and end users.
If “virtualization” becomes a means to bridge silos in the data center and create unified architectures, then IT organizations can more readily manage applications, data centers, and underlying network, thus reducing data center costs, improving business agility through dynamic provisioning, not to mention cutting down energy costs. But the most important benefit of “virtualization” would be reduced down time for users, who increasingly are growing tired of the limitations of hardware, operating systems or processes.
Virtualization is, indeed, growing in popularity as players like Cisco, NEC, Nortel, Microsoft, Avaya and others battle to win the business-communications market. Whether telecom or other sectors, there’s no secret that IT organizations need sophisticated data networking architectures that help to optimize deployments in and between data centers, as business users increasingly complain of issues that hinder their ability to collaborate using new applications and services.
Since approximately 37% of downtime in the network is attributable to human errors (Yankee Group), this Avaya solution is an example of how a virtualized architecture or “private cloud” aims to reduce the number of network re-designs IT has to do when marketing or other business units demand changes or new services. The goal is to streamline provisioning and policy configuration tasks that often mar the launch of new or improved applications and services. Telecom business users—whether marketing, product development, finance, or others—need reliable connections from their desktops to enterprise data centers, and their IT support groups need to protect core networks from failures. And so it seems with “virtualization,” there is a lot of energy being dedicated to establishing the optimal network connections among application servers and end users.
If “virtualization” becomes a means to bridge silos in the data center and create unified architectures, then IT organizations can more readily manage applications, data centers, and underlying network, thus reducing data center costs, improving business agility through dynamic provisioning, not to mention cutting down energy costs. But the most important benefit of “virtualization” would be reduced down time for users, who increasingly are growing tired of the limitations of hardware, operating systems or processes.
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