Data Centers See Future in Server Virtualization

According to industry statistics quoted in this Processor.com article, almost 73 percent of all data centers have implemented some form of server virtualization. The article also suggests that while server virtualization is fairly widespread among data centers -- its usage is typically limited to simple app servers and Web servers.

"Although any degree of server virtualization stands to help most enterprises save on costs and physical space, expanding this capability could transform the way data centers are operated. 'It used to be that you would set up a data center, and there would be 150 servers in there, and all these different custom applications, and your users would access them,' says Blane Warrene, CEO of social media archiving solutions provider Arkovi (www.arkovi.com). 'But in the last five years, virtualization has taken over, and now you can go from having a monstrous data center with hundreds of servers to having a very small footprint of virtual servers doing the very same things.'"

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