FD Insights Issue 7 | Page 15

“Virtualisation is the means of sharing a physical resource across multiple users with each of the users believing that they have all the resources.” - purposefulclouds.com 34 of IT professionals today are responsible for managing virtualisation Nearly 80 of virtual environments are growing at a rate of 10-50VMs per year 50 of IT professionals polled said they have virtualised at least 1/3 of their environment The Top 3 Most Encountered Virtualisation Challenges  • Capacity planning  • Performance bottlenecks • Storage I/O 300 Up to increase in infrastructure utilisation rates can be achieved through virtualisation 40 of mid-size businesses are challenged by aging, inefficient servers and equipment 13 | www.firstdistribution.co.za