There’s some interesting findings in this survey by Forrester. It talks about “enterprise” adoption of virtualisation and interest in associated problems/solutions. I’ve no idea how they define an “enterprise”, e.g. size?, or what country they did the survey in, e.g. USA only?
- 54% have deployed machine virtualisation. Hmm, Gartner reckoned 1 year ago that only 10% of servers worldwide were virtualised. If sales were that good then Microsoft, Citrix and VMware would be letting us know. However, CPU and server sales have plummeted despite stable storage sales, e.g. right what you’d expect with virtualisation.
- 81% are interested in reducing the costs of power and cooling. 18% are seriously interested. To me, that means 81% of those surveyed don’t really care or understand. Did you know your computer room doesn’t really need to be 18 or 21 degrees Celsius? You can safely run it at 30 degrees Celsius and your servers will still be happy. So will your operators who won’t have to bring an Arctic coat to work in the Summer.
- “Firms are feeling real pain over the costs of maintaining PCs”. You’re still going to have to manage your user working environment, e.g. OS deployment, s/w deployment, AV, patching, upgrades, etc. There’s still printers and peripherals. From what I can see, the technologies you can use now to optimise PC management will be the same ones you can use in VDI or Terminal Services. Also from what I’ve seen, most businesses have failed to adopt the correct strategies or invest in hiring the right staff to manage these technologies which will vastly reduce costs and complexity. The cut one small corner to create a costly huge detour.
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