Managing the ever-growing virtual infrastructure has become a key concern as organizations virtualize an increasing percentage of their production environment. Issues such as capacity planning, performance and troubleshooting are consuming significant resources as enterprises continue to further leverage virtualization.
These are among the key findings of a survey conducted at VMWorld.
Fifty-three percent of respondents noted that at least half of their business critical applications will be virtualized by the end of this year. This translates into a 17 percent increase from current utilization, showing the rapid rate of virtualization adoption by the enterprise. Beyond adoption of just the virtual infrastructure (hypervisors), respondents listed their top two areas of investment over the next six months as 'virtual storage' and 'virtual management tools.' They further cited performance, security and auditing/reporting as the major reasons for looking for virtual management tools, in addition to those tools provided by the hypervisor vendors.
The survey of 300 enterprise IT managers was conducted by Reflex Systems, a provider of virtualization systems management solutions that integrate security, compliance, audit and management of the virtual environment.
