VIRTUALIZATION MANAGEMENTMany organizations may be putting their data at risk by failing to ensure that their virtualization solutions are properly managed, secured and protected.

Virtualization now accounts for one-half of all server workloads—and it should reach more than 85 percent by 2016” according to Gartner.

Virtualization is a boon because it facilitates IT to respond to the hyper demand of business users and customers, while reducing costs on hardware and maintenance at the same time.

Nearly 80% of Virtual Environment are growing at a rate of 10-50 VMS per year

Background:

Virtualization: Top Challenges

Myths and Realities of Virtualization

How fast is virtualization environment growing?

80%

SPRAWL

CAPACITY PLANNING

SECURITY ANDMONITORING

PERFORMANCEBOTTLENECK

PRIVATE CLOUDDEPLOYMENT

STORAGE ISSUE

COST

MYTH: - Virtualizing is a costly affair- The licensing costs is be very expensive REALITIES

74%

61%

77%

71%

Reduced infrastructure cost

Reduced software licensing cost

Improved resource utilization

Increased efficiency

PERFORMANCE RELATED

MYTH:

REALITIES

66%

65%

72%

48%

Respondents say virtualizing their apps had a positive impact on performance

Achieved faster deployment

Improved server utilization

Improved Security

Virtualization will make performance of my app sluggish

AVAILABILITY

MYTH:

REALITIES

64%

70%

42%

Achieved less downtime and fewer unplanned outages

Improved business continuity and disaster recovery

Boost availability and up time

Virtualizing will reduce availability of my apps and may threaten business continuity

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