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Cost-cutting measures drive server virtualization decisions

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By SMBWorld Asia Editors | Sep 2, 2010

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The need for improved business cost savings and efficiencies, customer responsiveness and improved service levels, and disaster recovery, are the top three factors driving server virtualization decisions, finds a CommVault Virtualization Survey, which polled Simpana Software customers worldwide.

According to those polled, the top three challenges relative to managing virtualized server environments include the inability to backup all virtual machines (VMs) reliably and in a timely manner, additional resource costs and administrative time due to lack of data management automation and the increased demand for corporate-wide virtualization.

A total of 479 respondents underscored the continued rise in server virtualization, with 46% of those polled citing that between 51% and 85% of their total servers were virtualized while 21% reported successful virtualization of all or nearly all servers. VMware was listed as the virtualization platform of choice by 83% of those polled.

According to the survey, ongoing virtualization projects are generating increasingly larger amounts of data, with 36% of those polled creating between 1-5 TBs of data and another 23% generating between 6-10 TBs of data through VMs or VM-based applications.

To protect this ongoing surge in virtualized data, more than half of the CommVault survey participants rely only on backup copies as their disaster recovery strategy while 18% utilize software replication and 16% use hardware replication.

Industry research firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) reinforces this growing trend, identifying increased use of server virtualization as the No. 1 IT priority over the next 12-18 months.

ESG also reports that more than half of the organizations it has researched are using separate backup applications for virtual and physical server environments, yet three out of four organizations would prefer a single application to protect all servers.

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