A majority of IT professionals are facing occasional or ongoing storage performance issues as they look to maintain highly virtualized data center environments that can keep up with business growth.
Adoption
More than half of data centers are majority virtualized; almost all have some virtualization.
A rising number of enterprises of all sizes are turning to virtual machines to power more and larger workloads. Ninety-seven percent of IT professionals have at least some workloads virtualized. Sixty-one percent say they have virtualized the majority of their data center, while 19 percent are close to complete virtualization. The benefits of virtualization – such as better workload capabilities and resource utilization, enhanced disaster recovery benefits and lower power consumption – have been key in helping IT departments reduce their costs and increase productivity within the data center.