According to the recently announced AberdeenGroup report, "Virtualization is back in vogue. The technology that originated within mainframes has now gained a strong foothold in the open systems world as more customers adopt server and storage virtualization in order to gain more control over their infrastructures and reduce costs." AberdeenGroup recently surveyed 140 end-users to measure the adoption rate for se According to the recently announced AberdeenGroup report, “Virtualization is back in vogue. The technology that originated within mainframes has now gained a strong foothold in the open systems world as more customers adopt server and storage virtualization in order to gain more control over their infrastructures and reduce costs.”AberdeenGroup recently surveyed 140 end-users to measure the adoption rate for server and storage virtualization technologies, along with the business drivers, challenges and responses to those barriers. Find out the key virtualization challenges and recommendations for action: See how key performance and business value data for best-in-class companies compares with those for average or laggard companies Understand the top business drivers for both server and storage virtualization Identify the challenges for deploying virtualization technologies and how you can address them Some of the key takeaways from the report include: 50% of the overall respondents are either evaluating or plan to adopt server virtualization while 47% are either evaluating or plan to adopt storage virtualization within six to 18 months. Server consolidation is the top driver behind server utilization, while reducing data center complexity is the top driver for storage virtualization. Sixty-eight percent of end-users are targeting operating system-based virtualization, while 38% are targeting I/O virtualization.For a limited time, you can download the analyst report for free. Click here to register and download your copy. Software Development