Analytical Diaries

I’ve suspected as much but not quite as dramatic as I’ve experienced: The reality of virtualization in large corporations.

Ideally virtualization offers the bright new world of fast, pragmatic yet standardized server cloning that gets you up and running with a new project in minutes instead of weeks. It is however possible to counteract that boost in effectivity efficiently by introducing administrative burdens like forms, sign-off processes and four hierarchies of escalation.

And if the server mushrooming, albeit virtual, still nags at your brains you can invent a policy where each virtual instance has to have exactly one physical counterpart. I am not kidding, that is how a large internal infrastructure organization designed their virtual hosting services.

As I mentioned – virtually impossible.