Virtualizationin the data center has broken out of the experimental and testing stagein many IT shops, but there are still a great many large-enterpriseCIOs who are not completely sold on using it in daily production.New research reported Feb. 12 that worldwide, 54 percent of largeenterprises rate management of their virtual server environment as acritical or high IT priority. Yet only 45 percent think their companiesare doing an effective job in this area.
The survey of 300 CIOs and other top IT executives at companies in theUnited States, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (AsiaPacific) with more than $250 million in annual revenue revealed thatservers, storage and applications are the most important areas tovirtualize. Respondents reported more success in virtualizing storagesystems than anything else.
Fifty-six percent of respondents are using multiple platforms/vendorsfor server virtualization management, while 35 percent are standardizedon one platform. Sixty-eight percent of the respondents rated theimportance of centralizing the management of multiplatform virtualizedor physical environments as critical or very important.
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