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CommentsATLANTA, GA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - August 30, 2010) - (VMworld) - As VMworld kicks off today, a new survey of over 300 enterprise IT managers shows that management of the ever-growing virtual infrastructure is a key concern as organizations virtualize an increasing percentage of their production environment. The survey, conducted by Reflex Systems, found that issues such as capacity planning, performance and troubleshooting are consuming significant resources as enterprises continue to further leverage virtualization.
Virtualization Continuing to Take Hold in Production Systems
53% of the respondents noted that at least half of their business critical applications will be virtualized by the end of this year. This translates into a 17% increase from current utilization, showing the rapid rate of virtualization adoption by the enterprise. Beyond adoption of just the virtual infrastructure (hypervisors), respondents listed their top two areas of investment over the next six months as 'virtual storage' and 'virtual management tools.' They further cited performance, security and auditing/reporting as the major reasons for looking for virtual management tools, in addition to those tools provided by the hypervisor vendors.
Virtualization Management Consuming Significant Resources
While enterprises are clearly seeing the benefits of leveraging virtualization, IT shops are also staggering under the burden of managing an increasing number of virtual machines across a growing number of applications. Enterprises most frequently cited capacity planning, performance and troubleshooting in the virtual environment as the top three tasks consuming the most significant resources as they continue to further leverage virtualization and begin to have to deal with 'virtualization sprawl.'
As a result, 35% ranked network visibility, including flow traffic, monitoring and usage, as the number one capability they are looking for in their virtualization management solutions. Access control and audit of users actions within the systems also ranked highly as features users believed would help them manage their growing virtual infrastructure.
"Virtualization promises to simplify and reduce costs, but the reality is that the virtual computing paradigm requires a new set of skills and technologies to manage it," said Pete Privateer, CEO of Reflex Systems. "While organizations continue to rapidly adopt virtualization to reduce costs and improve performance, they should consider implementing management tools as early as possible in the lifecycle of their virtualization deployments, to help them maximize the cost and time saving benefits they can achieve throughout their environment."
To this end, Reflex today also announced the Private Cloud Initiative, a bold new vision that helps enterprise IT staff deliver the power of self-service to virtual infrastructure. For more information on the Reflex capabilities, please visit http://www.reflexsystems.com/Products/VMC or http://blog.reflexsystems.com.
About Reflex
Reflex Systems is the industry leader in virtualization systems management solutions that integrate security, compliance, audit and management of the virtual environment. Reflex VMC (Virtualization Management Center) provides visibility, correlation, and automation through a single pane of glass. Purpose-built for virtualization, VMC provides the essential tools needed to manage and enforce dynamic infrastructure policy in virtualized data centers and in private/public cloud. Reflex VMC, in conjunction with vWatch, vTrust, and vProfile, provides infrastructure discovery and visualization, timeline-based management, application/services discovery, network security, performance, configuration management and dynamic policy enforcement. Reflex Systems is based in Atlanta, Georgia and is privately held. For more information, including a trial download of Reflex VMC, visit www.reflexsystems.com. Follow Reflex at http://twitter.com/ReflexSystems and The vCurve Blog: blog.reflexsystems.com.
Reflex Systems is a registered trademark of Reflex Systems LLC. All other marks are property of their respective owners.
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