Publisher's "Strategic Focus Report - Green IT and virtualization" analyses the current trends,
drivers, and inhibitors impacting the green IT and virtualization market. The
report outlines the evolution of green IT and virtualization, and identifies
and assesses the best performing vendors in the market. This report also
presents Publisher's view of the revenue opportunities in the virtualization
market through to 2019, highlighting the market size and growth by technology,
geography, sector, and size band. Moreover, following in-depth ICT decision
maker surveys, the report outlines enterprises' investment priorities in green
IT and virtualization.
While corporations are
not generally in the “business” of being green, environmentally sustainable
strategies can be an effective way to achieve financial ends. With the recent
broad adoption of the economics of environmentalism into the profit strategy of
leading organizations, IT has a strategic opportunity to show "green"
business value. Green IT in particular will grow, as companies adopt
technologies with rapid payback times, whether they are power management
systems, energy-efficient computers and servers, or facilities management technologies
for offices and data centers. Moreover, green IT is becoming far more necessary
not just to achieve corporate environmental goals, but as a way to cut down
significantly on energy costs from data centers and company computer networks.
Key Findings
- Consolidation is one
of the most prominent trends in the virtualization market, as the leading ICT
vendors are trying to acquire or enhance their virtualization capabilities by
engaging in mergers and acquisitions activities.
- Facing a challenge to strengthen their IT requirements with reduced budgets, IT managers across the globe are inclined to implement server virtualization technologies, to decrease their spending on IT hardware and ensure the optimum utilization of the IT resources available.
- To enhance the
benefits of virtualization, resources under virtualized infrastructure share
common storage using storage area networks (SANs). However, the use of many
virtual servers on limited storage devices may lead to a scarcity of storage
space, creating challenges for storage administrators.