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Software licensing achieving mass adoption, not virtualization
By siliconindia
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Tuesday, 28 September 2010, 15:20 IST
Bangalore: Although most CIOs are running virtualized workloads in their current operations, it's the licensing and the pricing of virtual solutions that are achieving the mass adoption, said a new research released by Gartner.
As many vendors are adapting their solutions to a virtualized environment, the licensing of virtual solutions presents a huge headache. Those organizations that don't digitally monitor how vendors are adapting to virtual use, will face a massive increase in costs and possible license right issues with their current contracts, according to Gartner.
The research shows that even though more than 80 percent of enterprises have a virtualization program, only 25 percent of current server workloads will be running on VMs by the end of 2010. Hence, the firm concludes that virtualization is the highest-impact issue challenging operations and tech infrastructure today and through 2015.
Philip Dawson, research vice president at Gartner said, "Virtualization now drives efficient IT from all angles, including data center design, platform updates, and application and infrastructure modernization".
Gartner indicates that as enterprises get more and more comfortable with VMs and virtualization begins to mature, enterprises will extend the use of VMs within the enterprise, going beyond storage and networking. According to the analyst firm, 90 percent of the server market is composed of x86 servers, but traditional architectures remain: that means one app running on one server at a time.
Organizations that successfully execute mature virtualization deployments can save more money and improve IT efficiency by experiencing faster deployments, less downtime, better disaster recovery and much more. Gartner indicates that before moving forward, enterprises need to be aware of the pitfalls. Moving thick-client computing to a server can save organizations a lot of money by cutting down on IT maintenance and management as staff monitor and manage desktops from a centralized location.