Infrastructure Virtualisation: Transforming the Way IT is Delivered: Industry Report

Infrastructure Virtualisation: Transforming the Way IT is Delivered

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Butler Group
Published: September 2007
Product Code: R663-20

Description

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.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Management Summary: 1.1 Management Summary
Section 2: Business and IT Issues: 2.1 Report Introduction; 2.2 Business Challenges; 2.3 The Virtualisation Opportunity; 2.4 The Business Value of Virtualisation; 2.5 The IT Benefits of Virtualisation
Section 3: Understanding Virtualisation Technologies: 3.1 Server Virtualisation - Introduction; 3.2 Server Virtualisation - Emulation; 3.3 Server Virtualisation - Partitioning; 3.4 Server Virtualisation - Clustering; 3.5 Storage Virtualisation; 3.6 Desktop Virtualisation; 3.7 Application Virtualisation; 3.8 Network Virtualisation; 3.9 Data Centre Virtualisation
Section 4: Strategies and Implementation: 4.1 Preparing and Planning for IT Virtualisation; 4.2 The Challenges of Implementing IT Virtualisation; 4.3 Managing the Virtualised IT Environment; 4.4 IT Virtualisation Maturity Models
Section 5: Case Studies: 5.1 Case Studies - Server Virtualisation; 5.2 Case Studies - Storage Virtualisation; 5.3 Case Studies - Desktop and Application Virtualisation; 5.4 Case Studies - Data Centre Automation and Virtualisation
Section 6: Market Analysis: 6.1 Market Dynamics; 6.2 Vendor Strategies; 6.3 Future Direction
Section 7: Vendor Profiles: 7.1 Server Virtualisation; 7.2 Application Virtualisation; 7.3 Desktop Virtualisation; 7.4 Management; 7.5 Storage Virtualisation; 7.6 Network Virtualisation
Section 8: Glossary

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