While virtualization brings tremendous benefits to today's enterprises, many
may find the added complexity and management too daunting to undertake the
adoption of virtual technologies and so forgo opportunities to lower CapEx,
reduce power consumption, optimize space requirements, and bring operational
efficiencies.
Seventy-five percent of IT managers call virtualization management important
to their operations, according to an October 2007 survey of 100 IT managers
done at the Interop New York tradeshow by technology vendor ScienceLogic.
Among that 75 percent, 39 percent call virtualization management "very
important." [1]
For anyone deploying server virtualization technologies, the costs typically
cluster around four areas: infrastructure, IT management systems,
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