In this exclusive interview, Logicalis' virtualisation expert, Alan Watson offers practical advice on the basics of executing a virtualisation review within your organisation.
Covering all aspects from where to start through to what kind of environment would benefit from virtualisation, Alan explains about the main technical considerations as well as how existing management tools are still relevant in a virtualised environment. He also talks about some of the common pitfalls and how to overcome them.
Alan Watson, a Datacenter Business Development Manager at Logicalis has 25 Years of IT expertise including, World Wide Systems Manager for Coutts Bank, Technical Director for a European Managed Services Company and experience of IBM, HP, Sun, NetApp, VMWare, Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft and many of the business applications they support.
Alan is driven by the view 'IT should not be a business expense more an enabler.'