CIOs know that, in addition to investing in disruptive technologies and reducing costs, the availability and performance of IT systems that control business processes are paramount to success. Virtualization fulfills these requirements. In its relatively short existence, virtualization technology has enabled many organizations to realize tangible benefits, including cost savings and increased productivity. As virtualization moves into the mainstream, find out how to eliminate complexity and demonstrate ROI.
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IOs know that, in addition to investing in ogy initiatives, enable documented returns on invest-disruptive technologies and reducing costs, the ments and enhance productivity across the enterprise," availability and performance of IT systems that says Paula Daley, vice president of product marketing cControl business processes are paramount to success. Vir- at CA, one of the world's largest IT management tualization fulfills these requirements. In its relatively short software companies. existence, virtualization technology has Virtualization Moves into the Mainstreamenabled many organizations to realize Virtualization has rapidly evolved from tangible benefits, including cost savings an emerging technology, through early-and increased productivity. adopter status, to the point where it is A recent survey finds that 88 per- now common in many organizations. cent of IT leaders in the U.S. are already Thirty-three percent of the IDG survey investing in virtualization initiatives. respondents describe the virtualization According to the survey, conducted by market today as "extremely" or "very" IDG Research Services, 63 percent of mature, while another 50 percent think the respondents have already achieved it is mature. They also say they are now success with server virtualization, 40 deploying or intend to deploy within percent with storage virtualization and the next 18 months virtualization ini-30 percent with application virtualiza- tiatives in many mission-critical areas tion. Regarding server virtualization of the business, including account-deployments, the respondents cite such ing/finance and IT benefits as easier hardware provisioning infrastructure man- About CIO2CIO Perspectives: This and software deployment (63 percent), lower total cost of agement (both 58 percent), customer peer-based thought ownership (53 percent), and more flexible development service (49 percent) and application leadership program and testing environments (51 percent). development (41 percent). analyzes quantitative research and tests However, CIOs and IT leaders admit that they are To date, server and storage virtu- it via qualitative struggling with the ability to properly manage their newly alization deployments are most com- interviews with actual virtualized infrastructures. They certainly see the need to mon, while application and enterprise CIOs. The resulting executive insight is do so-in the IDG survey, nearly three-quarters (74 per- data center deployments are picking up then disseminated cent) say it is critical or very important to be able to cen- speed. Organizations are primarily using via CXO's multimedia tralize the management of multiplatform virtualized and virtualization within an application- assets. To learn more physical environments. deployment environment and in produc- about CIO2CIO Perspectives, "Successful management of the virtualization infra- tion to support both mission- and non- please contact structure is essential in order to optimize these technol- mission-critical business initiatives. mavery@cxo.com.
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Despite the steady intent of IT leaders to invest in a ments is top of mind for IT executives, with 60 percent variety of virtualization initiatives, key management chal- of survey respondents rating this as a high or critical IT lenges remain. For example, nearly half (47 percent) of priority. Among the top capabilities they need to demon-IDG survey respondents say the lack of the right IT skill strate in their management efforts are performance and sets to support virtual technologies is a significant obstacle utilization (85 percent), security (79 percent), automation to managing their server virtualization environments. Yet (71 percent) and provisioning (64 percent). this is the latest version of the old IT dilemma about not Here is where a virtualization management solution only finding but also retaini... [download for more]
