European enterprises embrace server virtualisation

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Server virtualisation is becoming "firmly entrenched" in large European organisations, according to research released today by IT analyst company IDC.

The survey found that, on average, seven per cent of installed servers at respondent companies were virtualised, and that 69 per cent of those servers were purchased in the past 12 months.

The research goes on to note that enterprises expect 49 per cent of new servers purchased in 2008 will be virtualised.

"Faced with mounting pressure to constantly deliver new applications at a lower cost, more rapidly and with a higher level of availability, enterprise data centres naturally turn to server virtualisation to optimise IT resource," said IDC analyst Nathaniel Martinez.

Our take: Increased pressure on IT departments to solve the problem of ‘server sprawl' - for both financial and environmental reasons -- means that virtualisation is here to stay. Ignore it at your peril.