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Prepare for taking advantage of the Perfect Storm and understand the way you need to work with it, and manage the services that use this computing approach. Lately there is a lot of media exposure on Virtualization, ‘on demand computing’, SaaS and cloud computing. Most of the presentations and articles focus on the technical side of it – presenting the newest generation of VMware or the way virtualization of servers can be organized. But, what about the other side of the story? How do you manage the continuity of the services that make use of Virtualization. How do you ensure consistency in service levels? How do you choose the best provider of your ‘on demand computing’ services? This information packed book focuses on all these aspects of managing services that are Virtualized. Anybody who needs to understand the business requirements and how to translate these into IT services that make use of today’s full gamma of technology needs to read this book.