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Virtualization to dominate enterprise IT savings by 2014 - Citrix |
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Virtulization specialist Citrix has come out with research as part of its Virtualization Index that reveals 27 per cent of IT budget would be saved through virtualization by 2014, and that server and desktop virtualization rollouts dominate CIO plans.  Citrix says virtualization investment plans and resulting savings will rise significantly between 2010 and 2014, citing a study of over 700 CIOs worldwide, and it provides a snapshot of how large enterprises view virtualization through the Citrix Virtualization Index. The report shows CIOs estimate virtualization helps achieve cost-savings of 16 per cent for the organization, and that they expect this to increase to nearly a third (27 per cent) in 2014. Around 31 per cent of CIOs said upto 5 per cent of their current IT budget is dedicated to virtualization technologies. In 2014, the largest proportion of respondents (26 per cent) predicted these technologies would make up a quarter of investment. The study says a CIO focus on creating and delivering an efficient and flexible IT infrastructure over the next four years, acknowledging the need for investment in new technology. The research findings are based on 700 chief information officers across five countries, with 300 polled in the US, and a further 100 each surveyed in Canada, Germany, Japan and the UK. Citrix said the study was conducted by research firm Vanson Bourne in November 2009. Over the next twelve months 41 per cent of UK companies intend to extend their current use of server virtualization and almost a third of UK CIOs (27 per cent) will be rolling out desktop virtualization. By comparison with other countries surveyed, the UK lead the way in server virtualization take up, with figures for the US, Germany and Japan at 17%, 13% and 19% respectively. Significantly, a further 36 per cent of organizations are “evaluating” or “trialling” desktop virtualization. For server virtualization the figure was 28 per cent, Citrix said. Server virtualization involves partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own ‘virtual’ dedicated machine. Desktop virtualization are technologies that affect the end-user computing environment, across any device, including VDI, streaming desktop, application virtualization (through hosting or streaming), local virtualization of desktops and user-profile management. Only 12 per cent of companies do not yet have some level of virtualization deployment underway. Almost two thirds (62.5 per cent) of these companies intend to begin server virtualization projects in the next 18 months, while a third (33.4 per cent) intend to explore desktop virtualization in the same time scale. The six most important benefits of desktop virtualization identified by the Index, according to Citrix, are fast desktop deployment (65 per cent), use in any location on any device (64 per cent), data security and access control (62 per cent), reduced total cost of ownership (55 per cent), ease of migration (48 per cent), and power savings and/or green computing (35 per cent). James Stevenson, area Citrix's VP for the UK and Ireland said the findings of the research demonstrate “the value the technology can deliver to tomorrow’s enterprise, both in terms of cost and efficiency.” He said the 2010 would be the year of desktop virtualization, “the tipping point when CIOs move beyond trials to adopt the technology as part of their organization wide IT strategy.” |
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