Why IT Can't Keep Up With I/O Demands
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Why IT Can't Keep Up with I/O Demands
Tech professionals are overwhelmed with the fast-growing demands of input/output performance, as server and storage resources are getting drained. -
Must-Have
66% of the IT professionals surveyed said input/output (I/O) performance plays an important role in their job, with 22% saying it's vital. -
Out-Paced, Part I
23% said the growth of I/O is stretching their company's ability to cost-effectively keep up, due to the need to continually add more servers or storage hardware. -
Out-Paced, Part II
30% said the growth of I/O from apps is outpacing the useful lifecycle expected from their organization's underlying storage architecture. -
Restricted Space
27% of the IT professionals surveyed said they have performance concerns about apps running in their virtual environment, which prevents them from scaling their virtualized infrastructure. -
Virtual Embrace
74% said at least half of their server environment is virtualized. -
Mega-Machines
48% of the IT professionals surveyed said their organization uses at least 250 virtual machines. -
Windows World
61% prefer Windows as the operating system for their virtual servers, while 12% choose Linux. -
Top Hypervisors for IT Pros
VMware: 70%, Hyper-V: 14%, Citrix: 7%
A significant number of tech professionals said the growth of input/output (I/O) demands is challenging their company's ability to cost-effectively keep up, according to a recent survey from Condusiv Technologies. The resulting "2017 I/O Performance Survey Results" reports that the majority of these IT pros said that I/O (the flow of communications, signals and data both received and sent by a computer) plays an important—if not vital—role in their jobs. However, the rapidly expanding I/O landscape is driving a difficult-to-satisfy need for more and more servers and/or storage hardware. For many organizations, the growth of I/O from apps is outpacing the useful lifecycle expected from their underlying storage architecture. In addition, there are performance concerns about apps running in their virtual environment, which prevents IT from being able to scale its virtualized infrastructure. The report also reveals which hypervisors and operating systems for virtual servers are most popular among tech workers, and we've included those findings here. More than 1,400 IT professionals took part in the research.