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Virtualization has emerged as one of the hottest IT buzzwords in the Asia Pacific region. Although the number of organizations that have adopted virtualization to address some key business and IT challenges is small when compared to the size of the region's business universe, a growing number of organizations in Asia Pacific consider the technique imperative for addressing the challenges and complexities of managing a growing IT infrastructure.
Server virtualization has many benefits, which is why it is being taken up so quickly. But the v-word carries downsides that can wipe out all of its advantages and cause a reduction of IT service levels. The risk of this happening to customers is not small. In a recent survey of US businesses, over half of those that had virtualized mission-critical servers said that doing so created more problems than it solved.
There was a time when the term virtualization perhaps conjured up images of bulky goggles worn for immersive "real world" simulation, described imaginative worlds, or somehow referred to the process of creating your Second Life avatar. For those not technologically minded you would be forgiven in thinking this somehow related to imaginary or pretend computers. However, virtualization has become a godsend for IT professionals, data centers, and cost accountants.
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This Springboard Research document presents an analysis of key trends in the India IT market in 2008 along with a preview of the top ten trends that Springboard believes will shape the domestic market in 2009. The analysis is based largely on Springboard's continuous tracking of the major trends and developments in the India IT market. We also assessed publicly available information on countries, IT companies, products, technologies and services in the country to provide additional inputs.
Data de-duplication is the elimination of duplicate data. However, you may wonder how duplicate content can arise in the first place? As we process information everyday, a lot of data gets generated, which eventually has to be stored. While we carry out the process of storing data, we unknowingly also make duplicate versions at the same time. This leads to redundant data or data which is not really needed but is present as a result of duplication.
Have you ever had the experience of having your greatest strategic contributions going unvalued and unrecognized? Welcome to the club. Most IT shops have serious communication disconnections between themselves and their business sponsors.
At the Open CeBIT conference in 2008 Longhaus stated that by 2012 the open source business model would be a fully integrated dimension of the overall software market. Part of the logic behind this forecast was that the presence of a new business model in an existing market that offers the same outcomes at a reduced cost will cause a reaction from other market participants.
Virtualization was supposed to solve server sprawl and offer a simple route to data center consolidation. It hasn't. Virtual machines are so easy to deploy that many organizations are now suffering VM sprawl. They have reached the point where they do not know how many VMs they have and have no way to manage them. Rampant virtualization can turn out to be a curse, not a blessing. How can it be controlled?
From the vendor, press and analyst community, it looks like it is all a done deal - virtualisation has swept the board, everything is now fine in the garden, and it's now time to move on to the next big thing, being cloud computing. Pity, then, that estimates are that fewer than 10% of servers out in the world are actually virtualised - and that even that those that have been virtualised are still mainly in test and development environments.
More and more Asian businesses are finding that there are distinct benefits associated with designing ways in which whole companies can be made to sing from the same hymn sheet when it comes to business procedures, tools (e.g. software programs) and techniques.
Virtualization has been identified as one of the most important technologies of the modern age. It offers significant possibilities in terms of return on investment as long as it is managed correctly and on the basis of the best possible intelligence. In this article, experts in the field of virtualization share their insights on how this technology can be best utilized and on where it is heading in the future.
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