Blade.org heeft de adoptie en verwachting gepeild van het gebruik van virtualisatie op blade servers:
De essentie van de resultaten voor grote bedrijven:
- 44% of large enterprises have already implemented virtualization using blade servers
38% of large enterprises are planning to virtualize using blade servers
- Less than 1% of large enterprises have no plans to virtualize
- VMware is the preferred virtualization software platform with 82% penetration
- Xen (44%) and Microsoft (25%) are also important players (organizations are actively implementing multiple virtualization vendors)
- Reasons for virtualizing include: Cost Savings and High Availability, tied at 77% each, Energy Efficiency (67%), Ease of Management (63%), and Easy Disaster Recovery (38%)
En voor kleinere bedrijven:
- 28% of SMBs have already implemented virtualization using blade servers
- 36% of SMBs are planning to virtualize using blade servers
- 15% of SMBs have no plans to virtualize (stated reasons included cost, lack of information, not easy enough, still surveying the market)
- VMware (65%), Xen (27%) and Microsoft (21%) are the leading software providers
- Important motivators for virtualization include: Cost Savings (65%) Ease of Management (56%), Easy Disaster Recovery (55%), High Availability (48%), and Energy Efficiency (46%)
Bron: Blade.org
