MarketCap Research on Data Centers in the Benelux [presented at Business Meets-IT] December 17, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Data Center Management.Tags: data center, research
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MarketCap has done some research into ‘Greeness’ of the Benelux data centers and the approach to the green-it concept, some figures:
- A data center has an average of 26 servers and a storage capacity of 33.6 TB
- Servers / data center:
- Utilities & telecom sectors have the most servers (76,10)
- Finance follows with 52 servers
- Storage:
- Transport & Trade services have the biggest storage capacity of 77,10 TB
- Business services have approximately 12,8 TB
- Data center challenges:
- Integration of new systems (27%)
- Energy consumption (14%)
- Data center budgets for 2009
- 37% expect an increase of the budget
- 50% expect no change in the budget
- 12% expect a decrease of the budget
- Actions to decrease the expenditures taken:
- automation of processes
- improving of virtualization solutions
- implementation of management tools
- speed up of implementations
- increase of outsourcing
Aberdeen Group Report: Virtual Strategies: managing servers, desktops and storage … June 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: research
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Virtualization has spread rapidly over the past few years from a development tool running on the desktop to an essential component of IT infrastructure strategy. Companies are adopting virtualization as a technology to increase desktop, server and storage utilization by running multiple applications or operating systems on a single computer. A recent study by Aberdeen surveyed over 175 organizations, and results provide evidence that virtualization can be a key enabler in a strategy of infrastructure or data consolidation, as well as provide reduced operating costs and increased infrastructure efficiency.
- Survey results show that the firms enjoying Best-in-Class performance
shared several common characteristics: - 73% have a formal process for moving virtualized applications from testing and development to production
- 56% have software to manage virtual machines in the infrastructure
- 92% have administrators trained in managing virtual servers, storage or desktops
- 65% understand which applications will benefit from being virtualized
Full report, sponsored by Embotcs can be found here.
Gartner reports increased competition in Virtualization June 18, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Citrix, Gartner, Microsoft, Oracle, research, Sun, VMware
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Gartner continues to advise to implement solution with rapid ROI and fall-back plans. The Gartner view on Microsoft, Citrix, VMware, Oracle and Sun here.
The influence of virtualization on your storage June 9, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: research, storage
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Resently the Enterprise Strategy Group conducted a survey regarding the influence of virtualization on the used storage, … .
More than 60% of those companies that implemented server virtualization saw an increase in the required storage:
- 39% had no change
- 15% needed between 1 and 10% additional space
- 21% had an increase of 11 to 20%
if you look into the type of storage used you get:
- 86% of the storage in network attached somehow, 14% is non network-attached.
- 21% run on fibre channel SAN
- 14% run on DAS
- 10% run on NAS
- 4% run on iSCSI SAN
Other questions covered are: What are the biggest challenges when implementing server virtualiation with storage? Has your organisation deployed a storage virtualization solution in conjunction with its virtual server environment? … More info here.
How to approach implementing virtualization technology June 9, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: implementation, research
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Arthur Cole has posted an extensive article on how to approach implementing virtualization technology. Most people automatic will think on how this needs to be done on a technical level, yet his post is a good summary of a number of other aspects:
- kinds of applications
- performance & utilization
- …
Forrester: hot and medium hot virtualization technologies June 9, 2008
Posted by Roel Gydé in Uncategorized.Tags: Forrester, research
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Virtualization has gotten into many nooks and crannies of IT infrastructure, but some of the available vendor technologyis half-baked, according to a recent report from Forrester Research. According to Forrester, as of Q2 2008, server and client virtualization is mature enough to pay off in the short term, but storage virtualization-particularly application storage-is “not very advanced” and doesn’t yet offer much payback.
- Out-of-band storage virtualization: mainstream over 3 to 5 years
- Virtual appliances: mainstream over 3 to 5 years
- VM automation: mainstream over 3 to 5 years, as apparently today a lot of people are not ready to hand over control to an automated system
- clustered storage virutalization: mainstream
- VM management: mainstream
- Hardware virtualization: mainstream
- Hosted Desktop virtualization: mainstream
- Applicaiton virtualization: mainstream
- VM Hypervisors: mainstream
Read more here.
