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Sandeep Mathur, Managing Director, Oracle India
Virtualisation is a key enabler of cloud computing but managing clouds is another crucial element. Managing all virtual machines and clusters is quite complex, especially with self-service, multi-tenancy, metering for billing/chargeback, and other requirements of cloud computing. To reap the full benefits of cloud computing, enterprises need to choose the right management solution. Many enterprises are leveraging grid and virtualisation technologies to consolidate and reduce costs. Technological innovation tends to come in waves, particularly for transformative concepts such as virtualisation. The business advantages of virtualisation have continued to drive its adoption as well as spur new advances and new usages, including enabling an efficient infrastructure for the cloud. This has resulted in multiple waves of virtualization, each building on the capabilities and business drivers of the previous wave.
Neeraj Gill, Managing Director, India & SAARC, Polycom
In most circumstances virtualisation definitely aids the delivery of cloud solutions. Within the video collaboration space Polycom has made significant moves towards a software based infrastructure capability and virtualisation is a key part of that. This will enable rapid expansion and implementation of collaboration infrastructure as business use grows and users demand more connectivity. However there is always a need for hardware based infrastructure in some circumstances e.g. processing 1080p high Definition video. For these environments dedicated optimised hardware based on DSP chips delivers the best end user experience. We believe that the architecture for many organisations would likely include a combination of optimised hardware and virtualised capability. Hence it is important for this to be understood at the outset to help ensure solutions are designed to support this hybrid model.
Rajesh Janey, President - India & SAARC, EMC Corp
Virtualization is a key driver to the adoption of cloud. Virtualisation enables an organisation to simplify, scale and automate IT to take the right steps towards IT as a service.
Jagdish Mahapatra, Managing Director-India & SAARC, McAfee India
Virtualisation is the first step in abstracting the business application from the physical infrastructure. A strong capability in managing and administering virtual infrastructure will simplify the process of moving the infrastructure to a cloud IaaS provider. The capabilities of virtualisation platforms enable IT process that are not feasible on conventional infrastructure (scale up, replicate/patch/migrate, online/offline instances). It also helps cloud providers provide their apps fast, often hosted at Amazon and scale up as the need increases.
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