The other day, I was digging into a discussion on thin provisioning, deduplication, snapshots and all of those great topics. I love these technologies, and I love to speak about them. However, after a few minutes, I came to a sad realization…I had ignored my audience and did more talking than listening.

There are a lot of very talented people in IT that have yet to begin their virtual journey. Sometimes, we can get so wrapped up in a virtual world that we forget that. When we let that happen, we lose value. This is a real paradigm change, and one that people need time to digest.

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