Mark Davis

These predictions are based on the Virsto's interactions with customers, partners, analysts and industry thought-leaders. Datacenter convergence reinvents datacenter roles Convergence in the datacenter is inevitable as it addresses two of the biggest concerns that senior IT executives and business leaders have today: The cost of computing The cost of IT specialists needed to run and manage servers, networks and storage As companies bring their assets together under a common virtualized framework, traditional roles and responsibilities will morph as departmental silos merge. With the accelerating trend of more intelligence and management being handled within the hypervisor, the roles of the virtualization administrator and storage administrator will themselves converge, with more of the provisioning, data protection, and performance optimization being done by the virtu... (more)