“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
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