BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - October 4, 2007) - A recent research report titled "Are You
Protected? Virtualization and Business Continuity" was published by
Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks company (
NYSE:
HHS). This report revealed
that about 50% of the surveyed organizations have virtualization deployed
within their IT infrastructure to support their business continuity
strategies.
The report shows that virtualization has a strong ongoing adoption rate,
largely due to companies' need to cut costs through server consolidation
and establish more flexible resources. About 77% of the 320 companies
surveyed either have deployed or plan to evaluate some virtualization
within environments. However, it was only a matter of time before a red
flag was raised about how these new logical environments are going to be
secured for high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Bottom line, end users need to start thinking not only about using
virtualization for high availability and disaster recovery but also, about
how to protect their newly virtualized environments.
"Virtualization has been swiftly adopted by end users, particularly in the
server realm and largely due to the business pressures to consolidate the
number of servers occupying precious real estate space," says Ralph
Rodriguez, Senior Vice President for Aberdeen Group.
This recent study of more than 300 respondents shows that 53% have deployed
server virtualization while 24% have plans to adopt it within the 12
months. Thirty-eight percent (38%) use storage virtualization, with another
25% planning to deploy it within 12 months. "The next step for most of
these virtualization adopters is to think about how to protect these newly
virtualized environments with disaster recovery, high availability, and
business continuity plans," explains Rodriguez.
To alleviate the challenge of business continuity with virtualized
environments, Aberdeen believes that companies should give a deep
consideration whether they want to adopt a targeted technology and
implement a strategy that will enable them to take advantage of improving
storage utilization rates, improving server utilization rates and, at the
same time, minimize unplanned downtime, reduce business / financial risk of
disaster and improve the high availability of their operations.
This benchmark report was underwritten by Sun Microsystems, Pillar Data
Systems, SWsoft, Xiotech Corp and The NeverFail Group. For a complimentary
copy of this report, please visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?cid=4359
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ralph.rodriguez@aberdeen.com