Virtualisation slowly taking off among businesses
Fri, 06 Nov 2009
Businesses are increasingly looking to virtualise their IT operations, but this change will not happen overnight, it has been claimed.
According to Martin Harris, director of product management at Platform Computing, it will take time for companies across all sectors to commit themselves fully to the technology.
He was commenting after emerging business technologies firm Nemertes Research claimed that enterprises are adopting virtualisation at a swifter pace than ever before.
Ted Ritter, senior research analyst at the firm, said over 90 per cent of the organisations that participated in its benchmark study were embracing the technology.
Mr Harris explained that even experienced virtualisation users "need additional management tools to address the new layers of control and cost issues that come up" when adopting the technology.
"In general we will see more applications being virtualised, and the analyst community especially – the Gartner's, the Forrester's of the world – certainly believe that," he stated.
"What we are seeing, though, is that it will take some time and that most organisations are looking to build private cloud environments, whether for test/development or across the organisation, to be able to support applications that are virtualised or not."
Firms that use server virtualisation need to manage the technology together with physical systems, according to ASG Software Solutions' senior director Ed Hallock.
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