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LAS VEGAS -- As more companies deploy virtualization technologies, more network managers expect the technology to introduce management challenges to their environments, according to an Interop show poll.
Virtualization is a hot topic at the Interop conference this year, and more than 50% of 117 attendees surveyed reported that their organizations have deployed some virtualization technologies. More than 41% do not currently run virtualization, but close to 80% said they would have virtualization in-house within the next 12 months. And the number of show attendees polled planning to use virtualization technology is set to increase to 82% in two years.
But nearly 40% of network managers polled also listed virtualization as the emerging technology that represents the "greatest monitoring challenges," according to NetQoS and Network Instruments, which jointly conducted the survey Tuesday following the opening of Interop's exhibition area. Network performance management vendor NetQoS and Network Instruments, which provides network and application analysis, monitoring and reporting products, also discovered that 24% of those polled consider unified communications a potential monitoring challenge and 14% identified MPLS as a technology that might introduce new monitoring issues. (Compare Network Monitoring and Management products.)
"Many of the people we're speaking with today are talking about network-wide rollouts of new applications like VoIP and unified communications," said Charles Thompson, manager of systems engineering for Network Instruments, in a statement. "Many IT staffs find it challenging to assess how these applications will impact the performance of other business-critical applications."
The survey also checked with attendees to get a sense of the types of networks they monitor and the specific technologies they have implemented or plan to implement in the coming months. Nearly 70% of attendees said they are interested in monitoring LANs, nearly 60% said WAN management tops their mind and close to 56% indicated they are tasked with monitoring wireless networks. About 50% monitor gigabit networks and more than 20% work with 10 Gigabit networks.
Agreed!By Steve Henning on May 12, 2008, 2:14 pmNo doubt that virtualization will provide a big challenge for network managers. However, the issues of managing virtual environments go well beyond just network...
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