Virtualized Deployment Growing in Data Centers

By Stephanie Jordan
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This month Centrify Corporation announced the results of a survey of 480 IT professionals about the virtualized data center. Survey respondents, representing a broad range of industries, across organizations large and small, disclosed that they are deploying a wide mix of virtualized platforms, including virtualization technology built into UNIX, Linux and Windows operating systems. While VMware, with 60 percent, had the largest penetration in organizations surveyed, 32 percent claimed to use VMware exclusively. Approximately half of the respondents that use VMware said they expect to increase their usage of these platforms, and about the same number said they may evaluate other platforms in the future.

After VMware, Microsoft had the next largest penetration (25.5 percent of those surveyed) distributed across all sizes of environments. But the survey also revealed that security and compliance are concerns and potential inhibitors to the deployment of virtualization technologies. Despite security issues, the survey found that the rate of virtualization is very rapid; nearly 26 percent of the respondents today have virtualized at least half of their systems. Further, respondents indicated that in less than 18 months, that number will double, so that by the end of 2010, 51 percent expect to have the majority of their systems virtualized.

 

Published September 16, 2009