Consolidation remains a top priority

• 42% of enterprise organizations cite consolidating more physical servers onto virtualization platforms as a top server virtualization initiative.
• Average VM to physical server consolidation ratio from our latest quantitative research is 2.4 – 5 – this needs to exponentially improve to achieve greater efficiency.

Time to work with the “server huggers”

• 41% of enterprise organizations cite expanding the number of applications running on virtual machines as a top server virtualization initiative.
• 42% of enterprise organizations expect server virtualization to extensively impact their IT management strategy over the next 24 months.

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4. SANs Stall Server Virtualization
5. What Physical Servers?

Tags: server virtualization, Virtualization