Server virtualisation and the takeup of this technology

Seems like virtualisation especially server virtualisation is really becoming mainstream and pretty much all organisations are looking at implementing some type of virtualisation. Be it in development or full production virtual machines.

Here is an interesting article i found that looks at the stats of virtualisation

• 86 percent of respondents are involved in exploring, testing or usingvirtualization technology.
• The largest portion of respondents (40 percent) will approach server virtualization by implementing a standalone pilot, with success creating the case for the production environment.
• The most important criteria when selecting a server virtualization solution are hardware reduction and infrastructure manageability.
• The two biggest hurdles to overcome when implementing server virtualization are lack of staff expertise and identifying applications that are unaffected by virtualization. This latter hurdle is most problematic to large organizations.
• The top three objectives for implementing virtualization in the production environment are improving disaster recovery, lowering administrative costs and immediate hardware and software savings.

http://www.virtualiqsolutions.com/docs/INS%20WP.pdf