ISLANDIA, N.Y. and COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at VMworld Europe
2010, CA Technologies (Nasdaq: CA) announced independent research
data confirming management as a key priority for expanding
virtualization across the IT environment. The research, based on a
survey of 473 IT decision makers in large and mid-sized enterprises
in the U.S. and Germany, was
conducted on behalf of CA Technologies by Oliver Wyman, an
international management consulting firm.
The research demonstrates the importance of having a choice of
robust, heterogeneous, virtualization-specific management
solutions, covering multiple management disciplines, with a clear
roadmap to extend management into enterprise-wide physical plus
virtual management as organizations' IT environments mature. The
roadmap for virtualization management is an important key to
resolving VM stall, accelerating virtualization maturity, and
delivering key benefits such as reduced cost of IT, improved
operational efficiency, lower staffing costs, and increased
business agility.
Following are five important findings of this research:
1. The Reality of VM Stall
The issue of VM stall was highlighted by several findings:
- Around one-third (34 percent) of organizations have only
deployed virtualization for five to 20 percent of servers –
typically the 'low-hanging fruit' of test and development systems,
Web servers, print servers, etc.
- Most respondents (87 percent) have only virtualized less than
40 percent of their servers.
- Only 12 percent have reached the final phase of virtualization,
with more than 40 percent of servers virtualized.
- On average, respondents have virtualized just 39 percent of
their servers.
These results show that most organizations are still in the
early phases of virtualization deployment, held up by VM stall.
2. Key Causes of VM Stall
Respondents cited several causes for their inability to expand
their virtualization deployments. While budget remains the top
barrier to new technology deployment, the leading non-monetary
causes for VM stall include:
- The high operational risk of a failed migration;
- The inability of available tools to meet management needs;
and
- The lack of resources skilled in virtual server
management.
3. Leading Virtualization Objectives
The research further found that at these early stages, the focus
tends more toward cost savings. At this stage, the leading
objective for virtualization, as cited by 39 percent of
organizations, was improved efficiency and headcount reduction. A
further 32 percent cited hardware and capital cost reduction as a
primary virtualization goal.
Only a few organizations have progressed to a more mature stage
of adoption, but here focus shifts toward higher-order business
outcomes. At later stages, the flexibility to meet changing
business demands was the leading virtualization objective, cited as
a primary goal by 43 percent of organizations.
"Organizations held back by VM stall are unable to progress from
the entry-level benefits of server consolidation into
infrastructure optimization, automation efficiency, and dynamic
data center or private cloud," said Stephen
Elliot, vice president of strategy, Virtualization and
Automation, CA Technologies. "This means virtualization rollouts
fail to realize the full scope of promised benefits – not just cost
reduction, but also service improvements, staffing benefits,
business and IT agility, management efficiency, and market
responsiveness."
4. Virtualization-Specific vs. Integrated Management
In surveying organizations' preferences for dedicated vs.
integrated virtualization management solutions across 11 different
management disciplines, it was clear that management needs vary by
maturity, discipline, and scale.
A significant minority of organizations (23 to 33 percent,
depending on maturity) expressed a preference for
virtualization-specific management tools. However, many respondents
(47 to 53 percent) expressed a preference for integrated physical
plus virtual management tools.
This demonstrates that there is a clear need for both
virtualization-specific, and integrated physical and virtual
solutions across all disciplines, and the flexibility to move
seamlessly from one approach to the other.
5. Heterogeneous Hypervisor Support
Moreover, the research data also reinforces the fundamentally
heterogeneous nature of most virtualization deployments at their
deepest levels. Almost two-thirds of all respondents (65 percent)
reported employing multiple hypervisors in at least some capacity
(ranging from early evaluation through to full deployment), while
almost one-fifth (19 percent) reported employing four or more
hypervisors. This heterogeneity also contributes to the difficulty
in finding adequate management tools to support virtualization
environments.
"Organizations at all maturity levels need a choice of dedicated
and integrated management tools, across multiple disciplines, and
designed for heterogeneous virtualization environments, to overcome
VM stall and accelerate their virtualization deployments," said
Andi Mann, vice president of product
marketing, Virtualization and Automation, CA Technologies. "We are
uniquely meeting this demand with a choice of
virtualization-specific tools for early deployments that extend to
integrated physical and virtual tools for more mature production
rollouts."
CA Technologies executives Stephen
Elliot and Andi Mann will
explore the causes of and solutions to VM stall at VMworld Europe
2010 in Copenhagen on Wednesday, October 13. Their presentation,
entitled "Getting Over the Hump - How to Jumpstart Your Stalled
Virtualization Deployment," will be held at 4:30 p.m. (GMT+1) in
Session Room 20 of the Bella Center. CA Technologies will showcase
its many solutions designed to help customers eliminate VM stall
and progress on the journey from virtualization to cloud computing
at VMworld Europe in booth 40.
Visit
http://www.ca.com/us/collateral/supporting-pieces/na/Virtualization-and-Management.aspx
for more information about the Oliver Wyman research data. Visit
ca.com/virtualization to learn about CA Technologies virtualization
management solutions.
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