Maximising the benefits of moving from a physical to a virtual environment can be challenging. Organisations that benefit most from the transformation will investigate not only the technology issues, but also assess team roles and processes.

Working in collaboration with customer teams, Prolinx delivers a ‘Virtualisation Readiness’ a program that builds on our understanding of the agreed business challenges and provides a clear transformation path to a virtualised environment. The process provides visibility of the latest virtualisation technologies, and relates current best-practices to the current environment.

Virtualisation Readiness is a structured transformation process, using the best processes and a non-vendor specific selection of technologies and tools. The objective is to create a viable business case for transformation and then to drive greater alignment between the business objectives of an organisation and its IT capability. The Virtualisation Readiness programme consists of six logical phases:

	Discover & identify
	Analyse & report
	Present initial assessments
	Technology validation and Proof of Concept
	Plan, design, implement & manage
	Virtualisation blue-print

Virtualisation Readiness enables organisations to meet their stated goals at an agreed pace and budget.