Jim Lenox, general manager, VMware, Asia South
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Q: Will the economic downturn bring challenges or opportunity to VMWare?
The global economic downturn has made outlook ahead uncertain for all companies but, as with most situations, there is usually a silver lining--governments and businesses being forced to do more with less has led to a greater adoption of virtualization to consolidate hardware resources.
The biggest challenge facing IT departments is...
...to be able to do more with less, while continuing to support business growth.
We are really excited about cloud computing. Standards are key to the success of public clouds--standards that allow compatibility at the virtual machine layer for easier entry and exit from the cloud, and standards that enable applications to be migrated in and out of public clouds without modification.
In 2009, these advances will accelerate to enable companies both large and small to safely tap compute capacity inside and outside their firewalls--how they want, when they want, and as much as they want--to ensure quality of service for any application they want to run, internally or as an outsourced service when additional capacity is required.
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