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"If Gartner's (News - Alert) most-recent survey of enterprise CIOs is correct, there has been a fairly significant shift of priorities from 2009. Where the top priority in 2009 was business process improvement, the top 2010 priority is "virtualization." Where the number-two priority in 2009 was "reducing cost," the number-two priority for 2010 is "cloud computing.""

Another sign of recovery - it's not trim as much as possible - rather - take advantage of some ways to reduce CAPEX and OPEX when building and/or replacing current services...

Yesterday's (9/14/2009) announcement of Nebula and apps.gov sites. Worth the 30 mins!

Move running virtual machines from one physical server to another with no impact to end users

Imagine that a Singapore-based sales manager is accessing a CRM application which was once local, but is now based in the Hong Kong data center. But it's end of quarter and the peak load on the Hong Kong CRM application is over the specified capacity limit, so the transaction (running on a virtual machine) is transferred via VMotion to the data center in San Francisco, completed and sent back to the Singapore sales office.