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For the past several years, companies of all sizes exploited this technology to arrest
server sprawl associated with test/development, general IT workloads, and
proliferating departmental reporting applications. The severe capital expense
restrictions of 2009, along with improvements in the performance of multicore
physical servers and the manageability of virtualized servers, spurred more
aggressive and extensive use of server virtualization, including wide use in production
environments. Based on current server sales and deployment patterns, 2009 will be
the first year in which enterprises of all sizes and in all countries deploy more new
application servers as virtual machines than as dedicated physical servers.
server sprawl associated with test/development, general IT workloads, and
proliferating departmental reporting applications. The severe capital expense
restrictions of 2009, along with improvements in the performance of multicore
physical servers and the manageability of virtualized servers, spurred more
aggressive and extensive use of server virtualization, including wide use in production
environments. Based on current server sales and deployment patterns, 2009 will be
the first year in which enterprises of all sizes and in all countries deploy more new
application servers as virtual machines than as dedicated physical servers.
Within a few short years, the vast majority (>70%) of new and upgraded server
deployments will be virtual servers. Given the normal churn of applications, it is quite
clear that nearly all data centers in large and midsize enterprises will comprise
primarily virtualized servers by 2011. Less visible, but of equal importance, is that
other IT assets such as storage, networks, and even some desktop environments will
also be transitioning to a more virtualized foundation. The challenge for IT executives
will be to manage this transition in a way that optimizes up-front and long-term
hardware and facilities investments.
deployments will be virtual servers. Given the normal churn of applications, it is quite
clear that nearly all data centers in large and midsize enterprises will comprise
primarily virtualized servers by 2011. Less visible, but of equal importance, is that
other IT assets such as storage, networks, and even some desktop environments will
also be transitioning to a more virtualized foundation. The challenge for IT executives
will be to manage this transition in a way that optimizes up-front and long-term
hardware and facilities investments.
T h e I n f o r m a t i o n - R i c h D a t a C e n t e r
Transactional applications such as ERP, CRM, and OLTP that typically create and
access structured data remain major consumers of new storage capacity; however,
new applications and IT use cases are now more voracious consumers of storage
capacity in many enterprises (see Figure 2).
access structured data remain major consumers of new storage capacity; however,
new applications and IT use cases are now more voracious consumers of storage
capacity in many enterprises (see Figure 2).
F I G U R E 2
C h a n g i n g E n t e r p r i s e D a t a F i l e : D e v e l o p m e n t o f R o l e - B a s e d S t o r a g e
Copy centric
Business continuity
(VTL, deduplication)
Business analytics
(
Data warehouse)
Active archive
Long-term records
Compliance
eDiscovery
Compliance
eDiscovery
Content centric
Clustered NAS
Video
Cloud
Video
Cloud
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
Content depots and cloud
Unstructured data
Replicated data
Structured data
Structured data
Consumption of Enterprise
Disk Capacity by Type
(EB)
CAGR
18.7%
47.3%
22.7%
76.1%
CAGR
18.7%
47.3%
22.7%
76.1%
Source: IDC, 2009