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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5 — Next Generation Data Center 2008 — DataSynapse, Inc., a world leader in dynamic application service management software for the next-generation datacenter, today announced the results of a market survey that cited high performance computing edging out virtualization as the most important IT initiative over the next 12 months. The survey, conducted through an independent third-party with 100 senior IT executives spanning financial services, communications & media and the public sector, surprisingly ranked green IT initiatives as last.

Other findings include integration with existing architecture as the biggest challenge related to cloud computing, citing scalability as the second biggest obstacle. The survey also revealed that 91 percent of respondents cited four key areas that would be the most helpful with their IT processes: the ability to tie business metrics to services; policy-driven server provisioning capabilities; dashboards and real-time reporting; and the ability to dynamically scale applications to meet peak service levels.

It will be interesting to see if the adoption of grid is integrated or parallel with virtualization of the infrastructure? Am I right in thinking that server virtualization is the first step, then the server, the storage and then the application convergence from both sides IT and the business?

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