Interview: Sun's Mark Monroe on virtualization strategies that work

By Ken Brill, The Uptime Institute

Both internally and externally with clients, Sun has been able to realize significant savings through virtualization. By sorting applications into 4 groups - mission critical, business critical, business operational, and business administrative - IT departments can identify the greatest virtualization opportunities with the lowest risk. "The target-rich environment is that business operational and business administrative [bucket]. Not only are they good candidates but there are tons of them laying around in the data centers and in the laboratories and on people's desks," says Mark Monroe, Director of Sustainable Computing at Sun. In this interview with The Uptime Institute's Ken Brill, Monroe discusses virtualization strategies that help organizations achieve consolidation goals, improve efficiencies of space, and lower energy consumption. Listen now