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Info-Tech Research Group

Executive Summary. Success in server virtualization is achieved by meeting one time and ongoing cost savings while building a more efficient and resilient server infrastructure.

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Info-Tech Research Group

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    1. 1 Info-Tech Research Group

    2. Executive Summary Success in server virtualization is achieved by meeting one time and ongoing cost savings while building a more efficient and resilient server infrastructure.  Server virtualization is a journey that starts with server consolidation where acquisitions savings is the main force promoting the business case.           Demonstrated facilities savings and cost avoidance are also key drivers.    Small to mid-sized enterprises rapidly progress from exploiting initial consolidation savings to additional benefits of managing virtual infrastructure (such as high availability and more agile disaster recovery planning). The virtual infrastructure journey ends in a managed utility infrastructure where applications are dynamically provisioned with abstracted resources.   Act now for immediate tactical benefit (consolidation, capital cost savings) and plan for longer term strategic benefit of managing a virtual server infrastructure.

    4. The journey starts with server consolidation and ends in a managed utility infrastructure (internal cloud).

    5. Info-Tech Research Group 5 Midsize enterprises will more likely consider virtual server management benefits and initial consolidation savings together. Management benefits include rapid provisioning of server applications, more agile dev/test environment, higher availability (reduced downtime), resource optimization (through VM live migration), and lower costs for disaster recovery. Larger enterprises might focus mainly on the consolidation capital savings first and tackle management areas in a second project phase. Success in server virtualization balances immediate cost savings with exploitation of longer term benefits of a virtual infrastructure. For mid-sized enterprises, it is as much about management benefits as it is about consolidation savings.

    7. Build on consolidation savings that can reach up to 75%.

    8. Info-Tech Research Group 8 Savings increase with consolidation ratio

    9. Beware continuing cost areas such as licensing and storage.

    11. Streamline disaster recovery, provision server applications in minutes, boost server availability.

    12. Realize labor and maintenance efficiency through more agile and effective server management.

    13. Plan to build an agile, scalable, utility infrastructure (Internal Cloud).

    15. Take advantage of server refresh to pilot virtual servers – from now on virtualize unless otherwise for new servers.

    16. Conclusion

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