NetIQ says we’re all pretty stupid when it comes to virtualization

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# David Shephard said on August 26, 2008 03:45 PM:

Good afternoon Rod,

Interesting one liner, but I disagree. NetIQ did not say your readership is stupid when it comes to virtualization.

The piece you reference reflects the results of a virtualization management survey taken by over 1000 respondents. The results of this survey confirmed that the rate of adoption for virtualization technologies is continuing, but which hypervisor technologies will end up being favored will be an interesting horse race to watch over the months to come. With respect to systems, applications and security management, as organizations expand their virtual environments and migrate a greater number of critical applications; the need to apply proven management capabilities will continue to increase.

We believe application performance, end-user experience and correlating metrics between the physical and virtual components are crucial to success in a hybrid data center. Virtualization is about driving down costs, but that poor management can have an adverse affect towards that end. Without a more rapid adoption of comprehensive and robust monitoring and reporting solutions deployed with virtual technologies, IT is simply repeating the reactive firefighting approach to systems management.

Organizations, as they continue to virtualize, should consider that solid management solutions will ensure continued investment and continued savings by lowering IT costs, reducing the IT operations learning curve, provide the data for both systems and applications, reducing IT incidents, and reporting on the success of virtualizing IT.