The number of virtual machines you have in your organization doesn't equal maturity, says Andrea Eubanks, senior director, enterprise and technical marketing for VMware. The goal is not necessarily 1000 virtual machines, it's a mature stable growth path for virtualization in your company, she says. Still, making the leap from the initial stages of virtualization to a more standardized virtual environment takes scale and planning.
"A lot of organizations get to 30 percent virtualized and say we're good, we've saved a lot of money," Eubanks says. "It's not enough."
If you're aiming for a very flexible virtualized infrastructure, you need to be at least 50 percent virtualized, she says.
In a presentation with VMworld attendees, Eubanks shared five key success factors to IT transformations involving virtualization, which VMware has noted among customer implementations:
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