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NETIQ survery: Virtualization initiative lack Application Management Basics!

This is like telling someone politely to "use their imagination". Virtualization may be a great to consolidate your assets and pack them up in lesser space but no oen can save you from the lack of certain critical skills.

Comprised of feedback from over 1,000 respondents within more than 800 different government, enterprise and small-to-medium organizations worldwide, only 21 percent of 759 respondents currently deploying virtualization have any kind of systems management solution for their virtual infrastructure. Overall, survey responses demonstrate that:

* Approximately 27 percent are managing the performance and availability of their virtual systems with the same tools they utilize on their physical servers;
* Just 17 percent are simply monitoring the virtual hardware or the operating system; and
* Only 10 percent are proactively gauging end-user response time while 15 percent are simply considering it.

The survey also revealed that 40 percent of respondents are not reporting on the performance of their virtualized applications, hardware, operating systems, or their virtual machines in any measurable way. This prevents them from managing capacity, avoiding impending outages and collecting additional critical data that can help ensure business continuity.


While industry can be screaming of some level of operational readiness, I am naive enough to speak of operational excellence hoping that they will achieve some level of operational readiness if they went ahead to score the perfect 10. anyways this is extrenely crucial, as virtualization technology gets commoditized, as your data centers and applications inhabit on heterogeneous virtual infrastructure, the more control will be required.

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