There’s an interesting article in the Irish Independent today. All but one of the Irish state departments is failing to place for virtualisation. This has a few impacts:
- Higher power costs
- Greater carbon footprint
- Lack of flexibility/agility
- Higher taxes for the rest of us
By adopting virtualisation they have the potential to save us up to €30million per year if not more. By adopting an outsourced model such as managed server hosting with an Irish company (it would be a requirement) they can make additional savings by adopting the pre-existing shared expertise and management infrastructure to increase uptime, fault tolerance and infrastructure management.