Server virtualisation – a perfect example of green technology according to InfoWorld and Forrester
Good – it looks like they both agree with us then.
In a recent report titled “TechRadar I&O for Professionals: Green IT 1.0 Technologies, Q2 2009,” Forrester analyst Doug Washburn discusses the potential short- and long-term success of more than a dozen “green IT 1.0″ technologies. He agrees that server virtualisation is one of the green technologies that will thrive over the long term and deliver most value to organisations.
He says: “Over the past two years, server virtualization has shaped up to be one of the most widely used technologies among the InfoWorld Green 15 winners. It’s a perfect example of a green technology, enabling organizations to get more processing power out of servers, thus reducing energy consumption, cooling requirements, and investments in new hardware. Further, it can allow companies to postpone costly, time-consuming, resource-intensive datacenter construction projects.”
Given server virtualization’s various merits, Forrester has pegged the technology as poised for significant success and one that offers a high business value-add. According to Forrester, server virtualization is already being used at 46 percent of enterprise organizations. Nearly 10 percent more are expected to adopt virtualization in the next 12 months. As companies become more comfortable with the technology — which can be complex at first blush — it will become ubiquitous within the next three years, Forrester predicts.
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