Virtualisation penetration rate at 40%

Four out of every 10 servers in the Web space today are not physical, a recent virtualisation study involving big businesses from all across the US, UK Germany and France claims, reveals IT Pro Portal.

According to the Veeam V-Index study, which brought this rather interesting fact into the light, an average of 39% of the servers in these countries are actually virtualised, the average number of virtual machines in a typically big organisation being approximately 470 as compared to 113 hosts.

The most extensively used hypervisor found by the study was VMware, which found its place in almost 84% of the participating businesses.

Veeam says 91.9% of enterprises polled for the inaugural quarterly V-index said they are using virtualisation to some degree, writes ComputerWeelky.com.

Of those companies, 81.4% are planning to increase their level of server virtualisation in the next 12 months.

“The economic and efficiency drivers for virtualisation are so strong that it is likely that we will see 100% of companies using at least some of virtualisation within 18 months,” says Ratmir Timashev, president and chief executive at Veeam.

The V-Index is aimed at providing an objective and independent view of virtualisation penetration, consolidation ratios and industry choice of hypervisor for businesses to use as benchmarks, Ratmir Timashev says.

Some 61% of enterprises are using Microsoft Hyper-V, while 55.4% use Citrix Xen in some capacity and 12% use other hypervisors, too, notes MicroScope.co.uk.

Reliability was cited by end-users as the largest barrier to adoption, with 38.8% saying it was a concern, while 37% cited the need to wait for a hardware refresh before deployment.

Performance, backup and restoration were also held up as concerns, but despite this 81.4% of enterprises using virtualisation planned to invest more.