Butler Group considers that the transformation of organisations from siloed business units towards a virtual business process-driven architecture is supported by the adoption of Infrastructure Virtualisation.
Server consolidation alone can yield a saving of UK£2M over three years for an organisation currently running 250 dual-core servers.
Power saving in the order of UK£78K per 1000 PCs per year can be realised by moving from a full desktop PCs infrastructure, to a server-hosted desktop virtualisation solution.
Moving from physical to virtual might appear to be straight forward on paper or in the lab environment, but the migration of production systems into a virtual environment presents a very real set of challenges.
Storage virtualisation helps organisations to manage their storage resources more efficiently in order to achieve higher utilisation rates.
The new server-hosted Virtualised Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) offers most of the benefits of a traditional PC but with the added benefit of greatly-reduced management costs.
Butler Group estimates that on average, organisations can save UK£4K per 1000 help desk calls per month through the promotion of user self-service and a reduction in application-related help desk calls.
IT managers and enterprise architects must understand and appreciate the key elements and concepts of network virtualisation if they are to run successful IT virtualisation projects.
Butler Group believes that even greater benefit can be obtained through the strategic adoption of virtualisation in the data centre, and that infrastructure running cost-reductions in the order of 40- 60% are certainly attainable in many cases.
As with any maturing market, Butler Group expects to see a great deal of consolidation and close partnering over the coming months as vendors seek to offer organisations compelling and proven solutions sets. Open source products and bundled offerings will inevitably have an impact on some quarters, but today’s market leaders look solid for the foreseeable future.
The arguments for IT virtualisation are compelling, especially in large data centres; and so Butler Group believes that virtualisation will undoubtedly become the norm over the next two to three years.
Software licensing and vendor support models have yet to catch up with the IT virtualisation market, and so early adopters are struggling to operate fully-compliant IT environments.
Report Synopsis
The convergence of three significant factors in the global economy have created the conditions that make IT virtualisation a technology that will become the dominant technology in data centres within the next two to three years: The need for organisations to reduce its energy consumption, which enables it to also reduce its carbon footprint; the increased importance of the ability to respond to market opportunities faster; and the increased shift towards automation as a means of reducing operational costs.The IT infrastructure that supports the organisation has evolved in a piecemeal fashion over a number of years, and this evolution has created significant problems for CIOs. The biggest issue is currently that of the proportion of IT spending and resources dedicated to maintenance activities, rather than adding new value to the organisation. This situation is compounded by the silo’ed approach taken to IT resource allocation and deployment within organisations, which in turn creates the conditions associated with under-utilisation of IT resources and inhibits the IT department’s ability to remain agile in its response to ever-changing business dynamics.Virtualisation as a technology is a step towards the redesign of how IT is delivered and consumed by customers. Butler Group considers that the transformation of organisations from silo’ed business units towards a virtual business process-driven architecture is supported by the adoption of infrastructure virtualisation.
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