Talking about the different regions in the virtual world

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As the information explosion continues to drive businesses into the virtualised world, storage virtualisation continues to deliver real world business benefits to adopters. Recent independent surveys conducted in both the United States and Europe by leading provider of clustered NAS solutions for enterprises and content rich organisations, ONStor, Inc., indicate that the majority of businesses surveyed in both regions believe that their existing storage solutions will only be able to scale for the next one to two years.

While it has been widely recognised that storage virtualisation is the best way to provide a flexible, scalable and highly available storage environment, only 27% of European respondents are actually implementing storage virtualisation today as compared with 35% in the US.

73% of US respondents reported that they currently operate a virtualised server environment, and 67% answered that they are considering deploying virtualised storage in their data centres.

In the US, 45% of businesses surveyed stated that they would realise operational cost savings between 20-40%, which is the main driver of storage adoption. In Europe that figure was near identical on 48%.

An interesting read, understanding that the operation conditions, the way we do business in the different regions differs is important. Check out this article illustrating the differences in the US and European markets.