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Demand for virtualization continues
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0311117.htm
A recent research report titled “Are You Protected? Virtualization and Business Continuity” was published by Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company (NYSE: HHS). This report revealed that about 50% of the surveyed organizations have virtualization deployed within their IT infrastructure to support their business continuity strategies.
The report shows that virtualization has a strong ongoing adoption rate, largely due to companies’ need to cut costs through server consolidation and establish more flexible resources. About 77% of the 320 companies surveyed either have deployed or plan to evaluate some virtualization within environments. However, it was only a matter of time before a red flag was raised about how these new logical environments are going to be secured for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Bottom line, end users need to start thinking not only about using virtualization for high availability and disaster recovery but also, about how to protect their newly virtualized environments.
Check out this article, it’s got some interesting statistics and information about adoption of virtualization, useful if you need to do one of those presentations/reports on the subject or even if you just want some more information, do check it out.
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Interesting announcement from Aberdeen. However, it ignores the possibilities of virtualization as a tool to help address the business continuity challenge. To reduce the cost of staging, advanced companies can import their systems into a virtualized environment and conduct “what if†analysis to understand how back-up systems will perform if primary systems fail. This can be done regardless of whether an organization uses virtualization or not in the operations environment.
Great comments Joe, being able to do more effective what if analysis is a great way of establishing issues with the infrastructure or the application. Virtualization can be a real business enabler – it all depends on how you make it work for you and your business.