Virtualization
in the data center has broken out of the experimental and testing stage
in many IT shops, but there are still a great many large-enterprise
CIOs who are not completely sold on using it in daily production.
New research reported Feb. 12 that worldwide, 54 percent of large
enterprises rate management of their virtual server environment as a
critical or high IT priority. Yet only 45 percent think their companies
are doing an effective job in this area.
The survey of 300 CIOs and other top IT executives at companies in the
United States, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia
Pacific) with more than $250 million in annual revenue revealed that
servers, storage and applications are the most important areas to
virtualize. Respondents reported more success in virtualizing storage
systems than anything else.
Fifty-six percent of respondents are using multiple platforms/vendors
for server virtualization management, while 35 percent are standardized
on one platform. Sixty-eight percent of the respondents rated the
importance of centralizing the management of multiplatform virtualized
or physical environments as critical or very important.
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