How is virtualization changing companies internal accounting processes?
Greene: All our customers want chargeback. What we do is provide all the hooks for the resource usage — you can tell how much disk CPU and memory is being used. We are also partnering with people that want to export this [information] in a nice user interface to the customers so they can internally charge to their users. In the same way, I hope the ISVs will map [their software] to the resources. The hooks will be the same hooks as for internal chargeback but they’ll allow the software vendors to say ‘You can use this much resources, but if you use more, you’re going to have to pay us more.’ Just like today, if you use two CPUs you have to pay more. But it will be less arbitrary. What are you working on in terms of upgrading and patching VM images? Greene: We see a lot of room for improvement there. It’s not actually a lot worse than the in the physical world, but there are some opportunities, once you virtualize, to do it better. We’re addressing a virtual machine that is dormant, ma
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