Speaking about virtualisation at the launch of Microsoft's latest server OS, Andrew Hopkirk, head of projects and programmes at the National Computing Centre (NCC), said: "Even the sceptics are paying attention because the potential is there to be had."
He cited an NCC strategy survey of 120 technology executives in which a quarter said they are already doing something practical regarding virtualisation.
Meanwhile, an NCC PMP survey found 48 percent of those surveyed are moving to a centralised IT environment — using virtualisation — while 34 percent have already done so.
But Hopkirk added: "It's very much early days for this set of products. It's up to the market to test these products Microsoft is launching."
Of Hyper-V, Microsoft's general manager of server and tools marketing, Larry Orecklin, said: "The feedback we have received so far has been tremendously positive."
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Microsoft have billed today’s triple UK launch of Windows Server 2008 along with SQL Server and Visual Studio at the Wellcome Centre in central London. more
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So - if people can see the benefits from using virtualisation tools and approaches for consolidation (yes - I think that really is all we are talking about here!), does anyone think we are ready to finally wake up to the fact that we do not actually need to have a physical desktop at every desk? ... or, heaven forbid, that we can access our logical desktops remotely from practically anywhere?
