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Virtualization and Cloud Report Card

By Ericka Chickowski on 2010-05-24


Attendees at the annual Network Instruments conference used the meet-up to discuss the challenges and opportunities of virtualization and cloud deployments. A survey of 105 IT decision makers at the event yielded the following results.

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41%

of respondents have some sort of cloud computing services running on their network.

61%

have deployed virtualization of some type.

55%

have virtualized "mission-critical" servers.

28%

have rolled out desktop virtualization technology.

More than

80%

of those who use virtualization cite cost savings as the primary driver.

30%

say virtualization's virtue comes in deploying servers faster.

41%

report they've deployed virtualization to simplify management.

36%

say the biggest problem with virtualization is a lack of appropriate tools to monitor their virtual machines.

41%

of cloud customers use some form of software-as-a-service, such as Salesforce.com or Google Apps.

29%

have deployed private clouds.

19%

use some form of infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) such as Amazon EC2.

22%

of respondents say they lack the tools necessary to manage and monitor cloud activities.

33%

say that lower infrastructure costs are the primary driver for adopting cloud services.

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