I posted similar "questions" on other forums, unfortunately without much response.
For a moment lets ignore all the security issues and look at how software licensing and support agreements are impacted on by virtulisation and cloud deployments? I work in the Financial services arena and many software vendors do not officially or unofficially support and sanction the running of their software in virtualised environments.
They give many reasons for this. The main ones are unable to QA stability and performance under virtualised environments, underlying components not supported e.g. databases other software libraries etc,etc,etc. Bottom line it is going to cost them to much to support in the short term. But in the long term I think that they will loose customers.
I know there are performance considerations in virtualisation particularly with trading systems where often high data throughput and low latency systems are a prerequisite. I do however believe there are suitable solutions for this. People just need to think a little out of the box and put conventional wisdom aside.
I imagine that there are a fair number of people who face licensing and support issues around virtualisation, please share your thoughts and experiences by leaving a comment?
Update:
I have found these interesting and related links:
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