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VM Ware sponsored survey points to high virtuialisation uptake.

The heading of this article may make you grin but in fairness the survey was completed
by independents and the results are not just belevable but all too predictable.

The survey points to 90 uptake of virtualisation. Detail on the categories queried is
scetchy but these figures would hold up in a data centre environment. While the figures
show great uptake of virtualisation they do not detail the split of brands used but
given vmware are the major player it is in fairness likely that they have the lions share
of the smart money.

The survey focuses on Europe and demonstrates that as early as 2007, over one third of
data centres used virtualisation. We are heading to over 50% this year.

virtualisation can offer cost effectiveness and greater redundancy while allowing
increased performance from the data centre while helping to keep it safe.

The report on the survey shows that the uptake of virtualisation is not purelt the
domain of large organisations and that while medium size company uptake is somewhat
behind, that market is increasingly making use of virtualisation.

The survey by IDC also points out that most traditional benchmarking tools will
underscore virtualisation as these tools focus on physical resource. The make it clear
that suitable performance and ROI measurement tools are on the way.

Despite the fact that this report is sponsored by vmware, the survey was conducted by
a third party and the results are in line with industry figures.

VMWARE (and virtualsation in general) has much to offer the data centre environment and
any reluctance to deploy virtualisation is likely to have a significant negative effect
on compeditiveness without any definitive tangible benefit from VMWARE abstinence.

There was for a period (and still is) some concerns in the industry that the use of
virtualisation was a software solution to a hardware resource issue. Some sectors in
the earlier days likened it to using software as a RAM substitute as was tried in the
mid nineties. This concern led to late uptake in data centres where the ethos was
correctly geared towards the “keep it safe” argument. Time has passed and virtualisation
 has passed the test with VMWARE taking the number one seat.