Just because you live in an apartment building, it doesn't have to be a ghetto

Robert Mitchell over at ComputerWorld has a blog article entitled: "Virtual machines: the new ghetto in the data center".  Robert's point is that with the wave of virtual applications taking over the data center, what used to be assigned a powerful, stand alone appliance is now sharing resources with other apps and as a result performance and user experience suffers.  Lets be clear, Robert is not saying that virtualization is a bad thing.  He is saying that without best practices in place to point too in terms of allocation of resources in a virtual, shared environment, not enough resources to go around is a danger. 

My take on this is as the two pictures show, just because you live in a "shared" foundation does not mean you are in a ghetto.  I think it is up to the IT department to make sure virtual applications live in the luxury hi rise, not the ghetto building.