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Thinking back ten years we realize how far we have come with virtualization and how many companies have embraced the technology. In the next phase of virtualization we will need to focus on efficiency, performance and agility.
John Dix, Editor-in-Chief of Network World, Inc., recently said, “virtualization technology essentially reshaped IT in the last decade, but we drank so deep and long at the fountain that we enter the new decade with something of a hangover, and lots of fuzzy questions about what we have wrought.” Dix contends that although virtualization has paid huge dividends in data center/server consolidation efforts, that the list of issues surrounding virtualization is growing as fast as new applications are created.
“Server virtualization was one of the most important data center developments of the past decade, with organizations embracing it enthusiastically for its benefits in cost, IT productivity, business agility and resilience,” said Scott Severson, director of CDW’s server and storage solutions practice.
Based on the successes and benefits that IT departments have already seen from server virtualization, continued, steady expansion of virtualized environments is expected. As user trust builds and the software vendor community adapts to serve customer demand, the evolution of virtualization will persist.
As Dix and others have been reporting, the most-cited barriers to further adoption of server virtualization are security concerns and compatibility of current hardware or critical software applications with virtualization platforms.
A “virtualization first” strategy requires that network users prove a new software application does not work in a virtual environment before the company will buy a server to support it. Companies who employ this strategy are typically those that are also more aware of securing critical data on their virtual servers.
Many in the industry agree that we need next-generation tools that address security concerns and compatibility issues in the exponentially expanding virtualized environment. Tek-Tools Profiler for VMware can address these concerns by allowing organizations to reclaim the visibility into their IT environments that was lost when OSs were decoupled from physical servers via virtualization. Profiler enables users to visualize and manage both physical and virtual systems from a single console, using a unified view of the entire environment, to track and respond to utilization of physical resources and offer predictive alerting.
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