If you think YOU have it bad, just imagine the millions of businesses small and large that have to deal with the enormous complexity of virtualization. VMWare, SANs, abstraction and the whole ball of wax.
They are simply overwhelmed. They and their IT staff don't even understand it conceptually.
Those who DO are making a very, very good living and have more work than they can handle or scale for in the near term. Fortunes are being made and destroyed.
Over 1/2 of the virtualization business now is rebuilding the initial, feeble attempts of in house staff with a new plaything.
Beware folks. Another very big economic era is about to hit where the average IT worker has no job.
A meritocracy of the very smart.
Everyone else will be dependent upon what they build and service.
Enormous virtual, portable computing in the cloud that anyone can use for a fee and only the top 1% in brains can invent, build and service.
Funny you mentioned this... My company just installed a new EMC VNX SAN (our old array was no longer supported by EMC), and we're migraing our users to a VMWare View system, effectively eliminating PCs from our business and eventually all of our branch offices as well.
Luckily we already have in-house expertise with VMWare products. But that will probably allow the company to cut its end-user support staff by about 75%. And it allows complete enduser freedom: For example, the company execs will be able to use their ipads and macbooks to access their Windows applications from anywhere in the world.
Mark