The number one reason for virtualisation remains consolidation
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Most manufacturers’ main objective for implementing virtualisation is still to achieve sever consolidation, followed almost as an afterthought by gaining the improvements available from its better management capabilities.
Those are the key findings of research by Storage Expo, which runs at Olympia, London from 15—16 October 2008. It reveals that 62% of IT directors are going for the consolidation game, while just 30% want the management side and just 6% cite enhanced availability as an objective. Interestingly, only 2% had no plans to implement virtualisation.
According to Natalie Booth, event manager for Storage Expo 2008: “Virtualisation has seen dramatic adoption by companies in recent years and the qualitative benefits of flexibility, recoverability and assurance are well known. Virtualised server infrastructure is a powerful approach to lower costs, improve manageability, and dramatically increase utilisation.”
John Abbott, chief analyst of the 451 Group (who will chair a keynote programme on Improving Asset Utilisation with Virtualisation), says: “[Virtualisation is] proving to be a catalyst for introducing or revitalising related technologies.
“It is easier to move virtual resources around a data centre [or multiple data centres] in response to demand, to deploy new resources more rapidly, and to redeploy them once they are no longer required. And it is also easier than in the past to integrate surrounding tools [such as monitoring, billing and chargeback] with virtualised resources.”
