| | JUNE 20168CIOReviewIn MyOpinionon Technology Issues and Trends Pertaining to VirtualizationViews and InsightsBy Mark Schlesinger, CIO, Broadridge Financial Solutions [NYSE:BR]Virtualization is a broad topic with many definitions that also span many critical compo-nents of infrastructure as well as applications. My hope here is to provide practical insight into this maturing strategy as well as provide some practical experience from the perspective of "fit for purpose."Traditionally, organizations have been very focused on reducing capital spend and increasing speed and efficiency by deploying server virtualization technology. This is one of the more mature aspects in the virtualization continuum. This has also led us into the "cloud era" where organizations can effectively manage and orchestrate infrastructure in private, hybrid, and public clouds. This flexibility provides an inflection point from a "fit for purpose" perspective­how can we effectively leverage these target environments to gain the best economic returns. With the risk of stating the obvious, leveraging public cloud environments for development, quality testing, performance testing, and disaster recovery purposes truly provides great economic returns and agility. Additionally, focusing new product development to operate effectively in cloud architecture also provides flexibility for deployment as well as best economic gains. On the subject of application development and architecture, the flexibility and speed gained by leveraging IaaS and PaaS along with Agile, DevOps, and micro-services architectures really takes your business case to the next level. While many organizations have completed their infrastructure Mark Schlesinger
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