The future belongs to a virtualized IT world, which functions on the basis of business processes. In fact, fifty-nine percent of European CIOs surveyed by IDG Research Services for a recent ‘CIO2CIO Perspectives’ report on Optimizing Virtualization Investments indicated that their companies are actively investing in virtualization initiatives. Additionally, they confirmed that virtualization technology is increasingly showing its influence in business-critical services. More than half those users plan to virtualize business-critical services as part of […]
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If the deployment rate of server virtualization continues at 2010’s pace, virtual systems administrators are certainly going to have their hands full this year, many IT industry executives believe. The reason is obvious: As the size and scope of the virtual environment grows, the more complex it becomes and the more difficult to manage and optimize. This situation has made virtual stall a reality, says Bryan Semple, chief marketing officer at VKernel, an early virtualization […]
Being that we’re at the start of a new year and all, I thought I’d launch the 2011 newsletter by sharing predictions from a variety of network and systems management vendor executives. Many, of course, have high expectations regarding the continued maturity of virtualization and cloud computing within the enterprise and, along with that, a better understanding of the management challenges and how to go about addressing those effectively. Srinivas Ramanathan, CEO of performance monitoring […]
Four years ago, data center server utilization was just 18 percent. To put it another way, on average 82 percent of the server capacity in major data centers was underutilized. Given all of the emphasis on server virtualization in the last few years, you’d expect utilization to have increased sharply. But it hasn’t. According to Gartner research, overall utilization is still at 18 percent — and utilization of x86 servers is one-third lower at 12 […]