Indian firms adopt server virtualisation

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The survey focused on how organisations plan to move business-critical initiatives to virtualisation and hybrid cloud computing environments.

The Symantec-commissioned survey covered 3 700 enterprises including large, medium and small across segments in 35 different countries based in North and Latin America, Europe, Middle East Asia, Asia Pacific and Japan regions. From India, 200 firms participated in this survey.

About 57% of Indian firms have adopted server virtualisation against 45% globally, while one-third of 200 Indian firms quizzed are discussing or are at planning stage for private and hybrid cloud deployments, the survey found.

According to TMC Net, this section of people accepted the fact that while virtualisation would help streamline operations and reduce costs, trading uptime, security, performance in exchange was just not acceptable.

Mandeep Birdi, technical pre-sales consultant at Diskeeper Corporation Europe, claims the company's software solution, V-locity virtual platform disk optimiser is specifically developed to address the issue of performance degradation.

According to the Symantec whitepaper, while implementing virtualisation, a large majority of those surveyed placed a great onus on improving scalability of virtual servers while an almost equal percentage believed that reducing expenses was a priority.