A quick entry to follow up on the HP BSA announcement on virtualization automation.

HP did a press interview to support the announcement and Glenn O’Donnell from Forrester joined us in this media talk.

Glenn believes that this is the year for automation. Glenn describes automation as applied technology – automation is how the productivity of the technology is increased.

Glenn also believes that virtualization without automation will not succeed. As he puts it “We see virtualization and automation being inextricably linked. There's no way to separate the two. You cannot do virtualization without automation."

And he should know, since Forrester talks to leading enterprises who have adopted virtualization at scale.

How do you manage your virtual infrastructure? How important is automation to your virtualization initiatives?

For business service automation Kalyan Ramanathan.