Virtual
Instruments, the leader in Infrastructure Performance Management, today
announced the results of its third annual virtualization survey, which
found a significant increase in private cloud implementation and more
than 90% of respondents cited infrastructure performance management
(IPM) capabilities as a "need to have" element for their virtualized
environments.
According
to the on-site survey, conducted at VMworld, performance concerns
continue to resonate, with 45% of the 136 respondents citing them as the
top obstacle to deploying mission-critical and database applications in
a virtualized environment.
"The industry is experiencing a tremendous leap into
private cloud deployments, and while some performance concerns at the
device level have been addressed, end-to-end performance is still a top -
if not the top - challenge for virtualization of mission-critical
workloads," said Skip Bacon, CTO of Virtual Instruments. "With more than
90% of respondents noting IPM as a ‘need to have', it is clear that
managing infrastructure performance at a system-wide level is critical
for success."
Key findings of the survey include:
- 96%
of respondents cited infrastructure performance management as a
"need-to-have" element for their virtualization or private cloud
initiative, with 60% noting it as "critical".
- 65%
of respondents have implemented a private cloud architecture, with an
additional15% planning to implement in the next 12 months
- 45%
cite performance as the #1 IT reason for not virtualizing more mission
critical applications. Security concerns were the #2 IT reason (32%)
- 55% report their organizations have virtualized more than 30% of their mission-critical and database applications
- 21% of respondents are still evaluating cloud technologies and/or have no immediate plans to implement private clouds.