Server consolidation remains the main objective behind the implementation of virtualisation in industries, according to a research study carried out by Storage Expo. It revealed that 60% of companies rate consolidation as the number one objective for virtualisation.
The study, which was carried out among 362 companies, also found that 32% of respondents cited new management capabilities as the objective of virtualisation, while 6% rated availability and only 2% had no intention of implementing a virtualised storage system.
According to Natalie Booth, event manager for Storage Expo 2008: “Virtualisation has seen dramatic adoption by companies in recent years and the qualitative benefits of flexibility, recoverability and assurance are well-known. Virtualised server infrastructure is a powerful approach to lower costs, improve manageability, and dramatically increase utilisation.”
Storage Expo 2008 will host various seminars to reflect the needs of today's data storage professionals and information management experts. John Abbot, chief analyst of the 451 Group, will deliver a keynote address on improving utilisation with virtualisation. His address will explore the benefits of separating the physical configuration from application and how virtualisation can deliver benefits to a company across all electronic assets in the global network.
Abbott sums up virtualisation as: “Proving to be a catalyst for introducing or revitalising related technologies. It is easier to move virtual resources around a data centre in response to demand, to deploy new resources more rapidly, and to redeploy them once they are no longer required. And it is also easier than in the past to integrate surrounding tools with virtualised resources.”
Other speakers on the programme include Dr Zafar Chaudry, director of information management and technology at the Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation trust; Richard Gough, IT operations manager for the Wellcome Trust; Jon Hutchings, senior systems engineer at Oxford university; and Steven Shaw, ICT manager for the British horseracing authority.
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