Bladewatch.com

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39443791,00.htm

Nine out of 10 organisations that have adopted virtualisation technologies have done so to reduce datacentre costs, according to research from IDC.

Of those organisations surveyed, almost half said they see virtualisation as standard for new application deployment now or within “a few years”.

IDC conducted the survey of 650 European companies between January and March of this year. One of the sponsors of the research was virtualisation-software supplier VMware.

The survey claims that “virtualisation is mainstream and is becoming a standard deployment platform for applications in datacentres around Europe”, according to Chris Ingle, research director for IDC’s European systems group. “Customers across the region are running core business applications, test and development and business continuity systems on virtual infrastructure.”

An interesting article about virtualization, do check it out. I like to see virtualization in a number of ways:

• Box swapping technology – where I can use it as a tool to refresh my legacy equipment – could my DL360′s not work just as well as a virtual machine – do we need a physical box
• Hardware abstraction – abstract the application from the physical server, that a disk or memory upgrade might be done in minutes rather than hours. Abstracting the application and the user from that DL580G1.
• Fluid infrastructure – that my virtual machines can be moved around the infrastructure where the business need, the service delivery team dictates – that I can bring online more capacity or move workload around whilst elements of the infrastructure are serviced, maintained or re-provisioned. That a system board failure might not mean an outage – my web servers might be slower – but they’re in service, the difference might be significant from a service delivery standpoint – that it works is the key thing?
• On demand provisioning – where I can provision capacity, disk, memory, cpu or ‘machine’ virtually on demand to the business need – another virtual instance might be deployable, be online in minutes – the end to the four week delivery of a server.
• Energy efficiency – that I can provide the service, the functionality of so many DL360 type servers on one blade server, one rack mount, allowing me to reclaim servers, patching, storage as well as power and cooling in the data center. For example if I can host the equivalent of 10 DL360′s on one DL585, I’m saving a significant amount of power, cooling and space, not to mention the hardware support contract cost – granted it might be a total figure, but reducing the number of legacy and the range of systems can lead to significant savings.

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