Stakeholders
Citizens of Seabreeze
Investors
California Legislatures
Seabreeze employees/end users
Executives/managers
City Council
Virtualization allows multiple operating system instances to run concurrently on a single computer; it is a means of separating hardware from a single operating system. Each “guest” OS is managed by a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), also known as a hypervisor. Because the virtualization system sits between the guest and the hardware, it can control the guests’ use of CPU, memory, and storage, even allowing a guest OS to migrate from one machine to another.
There are various companies which offer this product, which include Microsoft HyperV, VMware, and Oracle’s …show more content…
Benefits of Virtualizations
It Improves IT agility, ability to deploy desktops and servers in minutes, which also increases productivity for employees and also decreases the number of resources required to perform daily operations.
Creation of personal cloud computer, out of office employees do not require a laptop, they can use their phone or tablet computer and access their desktop via Remote desktop protocol over the internet or through Citrix …show more content…
Potential Barriers to the local government’s adoption of Virtualization
Resources: one major barrier is lack of resources and to fully research the technology, a large upfront investment is required to implement this technology, the city of California has also passed a bill which affects the local government revenue.
Knowledge: implementing, developing and maintaining a virtualization strategy can be challenging, it requires expert to maintain and monitor VM environment, while the city of Seabreeze are pro-technology, experts will be required to implement this technology.
Finances: Citizens of Seabreeze are much attuned to the expenditure of the city and demand accountability.
How to gain support of opinion leaders
Government agencies are saving significant amount of dollar and increasing efficiency through virtualization, according to survey of 302 local, state and federal government IT decision-makers by Meritalk, underwritten by NetApp and