Thursday, 13 July 2006

Server Virtualization Adoption Growing: Yankee

Virtualisation, which had its inception in the late 90’s, has proved itself in pilots and test, and is now readily adopted by IT professional. They are embracing server virtualisation as an effective business enabler. With its introduction the complex data center...

Virtualisation, which had its inception in the late 90’s, has proved itself in pilots and test, and is now readily adopted by IT professional. They are embracing server virtualisation as an effective business enabler. With the introduction of virtualisation, the complex data center is ready for a complete revamp.

Most companies today are taking advantage of the versatility virtualization offers. A survey finds that server virtualization is a mainstream technology, with three out of four businesses already using or planning to deploy the technology.

Virtualisation is a method of running multiple virtual operating systems on a single computer. It maximizes physical resources to maximize the investment in hardware.

A virtualised server enables businesses to consolidate physical space in the data center, consolidate server licenses to potentially lower costs and achieve greater compliance, improve reliability, and more quickly and flexibly deploy applications. In turn, this enables firms to achieve optimal total cost of ownership (TCO) and accelerated return on investment (ROI) results.

Yankee Group’s results of its, ‘2006 Global Server Virtualisation Survey’ finds that for majority of the corporations, the more important question is when—not if—they will implement virtualization in the corporate data center.

This approach towards shifting to the virtualisation server in a data center is indicative that sooner or later, the present data center would be completely taken over by virtualisation. But, the challenges of transition from physical to virtualised data center have to be faced first. However, the good news is you can build and bring down virtual servers from your desktop.

Some of the major survey findings include:

• Sixty-two percent of respondents already have a virtualization solution in place or are in the process of migration.
• To date, only 14% of businesses have not yet chosen a server virtualisation vendor, and only 4% of companies have no plans to install a virtualisation solution.
• VMware is the market leader with 55% of the installed base.