The Aberdeen Group recently put out a research report titled "Are You Protected? Virtualization and Business Continuity" which states that virtualization continues to be a key IT strategy to enable new ways to solve old problems in the enterprise. The technology has largely been adopted to date to help organizations with server consolidation. Virtualization has been instrumental in many enterprises by helping to The Aberdeen Group recently put out a research report titled “Are You Protected? Virtualization and Business Continuity” which states that virtualization continues to be a key IT strategy to enable new ways to solve old problems in the enterprise. The technology has largely been adopted to date to help organizations with server consolidation. Virtualization has been instrumental in many enterprises by helping to collapse their data center footprint and thus reducing all of the costs that go along with it. Aberdeen has found that IT management is now looking beyond server consolidation and is starting to ask that virtualization help enable the enterprise to address the truly tough missions of Business Continuity, High Availability, and Disaster Recovery. This latest report provides some insights and clarifications into the practices adopted by Best-in-Class companies that have begun to implement this next step in applying virtualization technology.The report shows that the adoption rate of virtualization is strong. Having surveyed nearly 300 respondents, the survey found that 53% of respondents have deployed server virtualization, while another 24% plan to implement it within 12 months. At least 38% have deployed storage virtualization, with another 25% planning to adopt it within the next 12 months.Once these companies adopt the technology, Aberdeen concludes that the next step for these adopters is to think about how to protect these virtualized environments. The reports states: “Virtualization is clearly helping customers to move their server and storage infrastructures into a more flexible environment which enables high availablity and disaster recovery. Furthermore, given that virtualization is emerging as a disruptive technology, companies must now take appropriate steps to ensure their newly virtualized environments are just as protected as their physcial environments.” Responding executives and IT managers completed the online survey that included questions designed to determine the following: Identify companies that are using virtualization to support business continuity, high availability, and disaster recovery The business drivers behind server and storage virtualization deployments The structure and effectiveness of virtualization within server and storage environments Measure the benefits, if any, that have been derived from virtualization / business continuity initiatives The report was underwritten by Neverfail, Pillar Data Systems, Sun Microsystems, SWsoft and Xiotech.You can get a complimentary copy of this 21 page report by signing up, here. Software Development