Virtualization is not a new topic, however, it continues to be an emerging and quickly-adopted strategy for combating several enterprise technology problems. How does adopting a continual virtualization plan help an organization's bottom line? In many ways, actually. Believe it or not, many have been slow to adopt this strategy. They still have datacenters full of under-utilized hardware, consuming precious resources.
Why should adopting a prominent virtual environment be a part of your 2009 strategy?
1) Cost Savings: Quite obviously, the cost benefits from a large physical-to-virtual conversion project are prominent in all areas. They include physical hardware, management, provisioning, and physical resource costs. With the economic struggle currently in place, squeezing every last bit of performance and utilization per compute cycle is incredibly important.
2) Security: Partition, partition, partition. Secure environments isolate functions and instances to ensure a 'checks-and-balances' architecture. Prior to adopting virtualization techniques, organizations were forced to physically separate instances, and create complex physical network architectures to do so.
3) Fault Tolerance and Disaster Recovery
Why aren't organizations adopting a full-scale virtualization technique?
First and foremost, constructing a large virtualization endeavor takes time, patience, expertise, and perhaps a bit of luck. Simply put, many organizations don't want to 'bite the bullet' and move mission-critical systems and resources over to such an environment.
What virtualization strategies will lead in 2009?
In 2008, the mass-appeal server virtualization strategy was well received and implemented by many large-and-small organizations alike. What promises to be the new virtualization strategy to come, is desktop environment virtualization. The 'virtual desktop' is quickly gaining wide appeal, for the same reasons that server virtualization became so popular. Ease of management, increased hardware utilization, and the potential to shrink physical resource consumption are among the leading reasons that desktop virtualziation will quickly grow in 2009.
What companies or technologies will continue to develop and lead in 2009?
Obviously, VMWare and Microsoft will continue to be the "A-List" platforms for server and desktop virtualization, but it's important to recognize the supporting market that supports and surrounds these vendors. Companies like Vizioncore, whose product line includes vRanger Pro (VM backup) and vFoglight (performance monitoring and metrics) and BlueLane (now VMWare, for security and data integrity) will make the virutalization option for feasible and adaptable for organizations still struggling with the transition.
In conclusion, Virtualization is a business and technology strategy that will only continue to grow in 2009. Organizations that strategize around the technology, and the very "idea" of consolidation and resource-maximization will not only see improvements in their bottom line, but from an ease-of-management perspective as well.
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