Business overlooks storage virtualisation

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According to the president and CEO of DataCore Software, George Teixeira, a third of businesses adopting server virtualisation underestimated the effect that this would have on their storage budget.

He told ITWorldCanada that ignoring the storage costs associated with virtualisation could result in projects stalling or even being cancelled altogether.

According to Virtualisation Review, a recent survey from DataCore Software found that most medium and large enterprises overlook storage when they implement their virtual operating environments.

In fact, 43% of survey respondents said they had not estimated how storage would impact their server and desktop virtualisation costs, and had not begun a virtualisation project because the storage costs seemed “too high”.

This report comes out at a time when efforts to rein in storage costs have taken on the tenor of a crusade, as a wide variety of vendors are unveiling new storage products and techniques designed to reduce storage burdens.

According to Dave Pearson, senior analyst for storage at Toronto-based IDC Canada, storage virtualisation is a relatively new, albeit key, component of virtualisation, writes ITWorldCanada

But he says the storage component is still a “support” technology led in most cases by server virtualisation.

Pearson said storage virtualisation forms part of what he calls virtualisation 3.0 where it's not just about getting rid of physical machines and improving processes anymore. “It's now part of optimising the entire solution, making sure you're really getting your money's worth out of the hardware that you're committing to these virtualisation projects,” he adds.