Executive Viewpoint: Predicting the Future
What did they predict?

At the end of 2008, Virtual Strategy Magazine asked virtualization executives to make predictions for 2009. Here are some highlights:

• Over two-thirds of the executives cited economic pressures as the key driver for virtualization in 2009.
• Most all of them cited the need for new management tools to achieve virtualization ROI goals.
• In 2008, almost all organizations had significant virtualization initiatives, primarily on low-end to mid-range applications, but not high-end, mission critical applications.
• Just about all realized significant server cost, energy and footprint savings, but the rapid adoption caused a new issue — increased virtualization infrastructure complexity, which threatened ROI.
• Driven by economic pressures, 2009 will be the year of mainstream virtualization adoption.

Look for a full summary next week on VSM.

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