Uncovering the ROI of virtualisation (Part 2)

Return on investment (ROI) is all about getting your money’s worth and perhaps more importantly, helping justify future investments. 

In my last post, I offered some tips on how to effectively implement your virtualisation projects and realise a ROI, by considering the business needs.

In this follow-up post, I’ll be examining how important it is to ensure that assets are fully utilised and that the virtualisation strategy is really working for the business.  

We look at how businesses can unlock the ROI with virtualisation by following a few simple steps:-

1.)    Plan

2.)    Baseline

3.)    Measure

Plan

Planning for cost saving and return on investment is often overlooked at the early stages of any project. Organisations are typically unaware of the potential a new technology can offer and so lack clarity to define how it will meet business objectives.  

Initial planning is important to find out exactly what the technology can deliver back to the business and aid in setting expectations.  

Consider, virtualisation within an ITIL framework for example.  How would it be run through the service strategy and in to design?