Survey Says: Virtualisation Cuts Downtime

By Greg McNevin

April 10, 2008: According to a new Vizioncore survey, virtualisation cuts application downtime and speed system recovery.

The virtual server management firm’s survey of 200 end-users at the VMworld Europe conference in February 2008 found that the ability of organisations to recover from failure is greatly improved through the use of the technology.

Of the 200-plus responses received, the company says that 76 percent said they could recover a virtual machine within two hours, while 73 percent claimed that virtualisation had helped them to reduce application downtime.

However, while the benefits of virtualisation are being realised, a disconcertingly small number of organisations (just over a third) confessed to having no specific disaster recovery strategy in place to protect their virtual environments.

“The role of virtualisation within businesses has gone well beyond just server consolidation,” said Chris Akerberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of Vizioncore. “The results of this survey show that improved business continuity and accelerated disaster recovery are now significant drivers for uptake of virtualisation.

“The fact that many organisations still lack a proper disaster recovery strategy for their virtual infrastructures highlights the significant opportunity that exists in this area and is why we feel we are increasingly well positioned to help them protect their mission-critical applications running on virtual machines.”

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