Third of enterprise servers virtualised, study finds
Third of enterprise servers virtualised, study finds
Research has found that virtualisation is becoming increasingly popular within enterprises, with a substantial proportion of servers identified as virtual.
In fact, 38.9 per cent of all servers within the businesses surveyed were virtual, while 86.5 per cent of all of the enterprises used the system to a certain degree.
However, not everyone was comfortable with the technology, with a number of barriers to increased virtualisation penetration identified. Concerns about reliability were the most prevalent, with 36 per cent stating that this was an issue. Application performance (34 per cent), concerns regarding backup and restoration (33 per cent) and the need to wait for a hardware refresh before deployment (32 per cent) were also identified as being potentially problematic.
When it comes to reliability and application performance, enterprises could find that a leased line or a managed network could solve any major problems by ensuring the network can handle traffic and data flows.
Ratmir Timashev, chief executive at Veeam Software, commented on the wider trends in IT: “Firstly, desktop virtualisation is growing in relevance and many enterprises are opting for a range of solutions from key vendors. Next, greater choice in the market sees customers actively choosing to change purchasing patterns around virtualisation.”
Indeed, 38 per cent of enterprises using server virtualisation and 34 per cent of those using desktop virtualisation are planning to change their primary hypervisor over the next 12 months.
When it comes to software choice, VMware is still in the lead by a long way with 84 per cent of users, while Citrix Xen came in second with 32 per cent and Microsoft Hyper-V clocked up 43 per cent of users.
