Reality Check Blog

Reality Check “Tech Briefs” are Symantec’s thoughts and analysis of timely topics and trends addressing the latest IT challenges today and into the future. The blog addresses some of the technology overview of products and solutions that help deliver business value to customers and some of the lessons learned to address security and data management issues, challenges and opportunities.

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  Created: Ctrox 18 May 2010

  Five Challenges You Need to Address About ‘Going Virtual’

  Virtualization introduces new challenges into IT environments as they become increasingly both physical and virtual. Here are five in particular that you need to be aware of as you deploy – or continue to deploy – virtualization. Has any topic attracted more attention than virtualization in IT departments these days? It’s not likely. Research bellwether Gartner Inc. has dubbed virtualization “the highest-impact issue changing infrastructure and operations through 2012.” 1   That being the case, it’s not surprising that virtualization introduces new challenges into IT environments as they become increasingly both physical and virtual. This Tech Brief looks at five key challenges that you need to be aware of as you deploy – or continue to deploy – virtualization.   Challenge #1: Can you manage both physical and virtual platforms efficiently? Management software and...