The value of virtualization strategy is increasing rapidly

Virtualization has become the core technology to improve it efficiency in various scale enterprises all over the world. In the European and American markets, nearly 80% of enterprises have deployed virtualization. But in the Chinese market, whether the virtual penetration rate or the level of virtualization, are generally lagging behind the European and American markets. This not only hinders Chinese enterprises through virtualization to improve it efficiency, through the IT breakthrough to achieve innovation capacity, but also severely limits the Chinese enterprises in the conceptual era of global economic environment competitiveness.

In order to accurately describe China's virtualization and cloud computing market and technology development trends, analysis of China's virtualization market and Europe and the United States market distance, analysis of the various stages of virtualization of IT technology needs, February 2013, the International survey of the bridge through 50 groups of questions to investigate, screening 683 groups from the end users of the complete data analysis. We will share some of the survey data with Chinese users through the sequence. At the same time, through 7 field series online lectures, analyze the impact of virtualization stages on the business, industry virtualization maturity, maturity and virtualization evolution phase relevance, and important virtualization technology assessment factors.

The value of virtualization strategy is increasing rapidly

The findings suggest that China's virtualization market is evolving from "acceptance" to "universal". Of the 683 end-users surveyed, 40.8% per cent said they had implemented virtualization, which is still a large distance from the deployment of virtualization in nearly 80% of companies in the US and Europe. Virtualization is gradually becoming an enterprise's strategy to improve it efficiency. 24.5% of respondents said "virtualization has a huge impact on our IT strategy, we migrate most applications and data to virtualized platforms", and 57.2% of respondents said they would migrate some applications to virtualized environments. In the next 24 months, China's virtualization market growth rate far higher than the virtual mature European and American markets. 21.1% per cent of respondents said they were assessing virtualization and would complete virtualized deployments over the next 12 months, while 27.2% per cent considered deploying virtualization for the next 12-24 months.

The level of virtualization is rapidly increasing

For users who have already deployed virtualization, the increased level of virtualization will stimulate the need for virtualization-related technologies. Specifically, technology upgrades support production applications (including business-critical load virtualization). In the survey, 32.4% per cent of respondents said that virtualization was already being used in production and testing environments, and 25.8% per cent of respondents were considering virtualization in production applications including business-critical workloads. In order to meet the virtualization maturity and virtualization evolution process upgrades, users improve it resource deployment efficiency and centralized transparency management capabilities.

Enterprise-level Leadership virtualization Maturity

From the virtualization penetration and virtualization level of different scale enterprises, enterprise-level users are higher than midrange and SME. More than half of the enterprise-class users who participate in the survey have already deployed virtualization; more than 40% per cent of the enterprise-level users are virtualized for production environments; more than 30% per cent of enterprise-level users consider virtualization for production applications that include business-critical workloads. From the total number of virtual machines and the density of virtual machines, Enterprise Virtualization servers account for total server ratios, and virtual machines have an average density higher than midrange users and SMEs. For enterprise users, it is the key to improve the return of virtualization investment to meet the increasing demand of virtual machine density and improve the efficiency of virtual machine automation management. Enterprise-level users will pay more attention to virtual machine deployment, automated management and monitoring, and virtual machine resource bulk configuration, Virtual machine lifecycle automated management capabilities to enhance the virtualization deployment and management efficiency of the enterprise. At the same time, Chinese enterprise users are preparing for resources and processes for the integration and transition of virtualization and cloud computing. (Virtualization maturity definition, analysis, next phase Interpretation)

Mid-end users (500-1000) the fastest growth of virtualization in the next December

In the next 12 months the virtualization of the mid-tier market is growing fastest. The deployment ratio of midrange users over the next 12 months (27.5%) is higher than that of large scale enterprises (about 15.5%), Enterprise (22.5%), and SME (20.7%) users. At the same time, midrange users have a higher proportion of virtual machine densities (the number of virtual machines running on a physical server) and more server virtualization for tier one and two-tier databases than in other segments. In the private cloud deployment, the 12-month deployment ratio for midrange users (51%) goes well beyond any enterprise (less than 30%) and SME (less than 28%) users. As for the importance of virtualization to enterprise IT strategies, 32.1% per cent of the respondents to the mid-tier said that virtualization had a significant impact on their IT strategy, and would consider migrating most applications and data to a virtualized platform, which was larger than enterprise-level users (31%) and Super Enterprise (28.2%) users. In a deep visit to midrange users, it is more stressful, more stressful, and faster business growth and development than large enterprises. Virtualization allows mid-tier users to leverage it to reduce business costs, accelerate it's ability to support business, realize business breakthrough innovation, and midrange users can use less resources, improve the rapid business response to the market, challenge dozens of times times the size of their own enterprise competitors, to achieve through it creative value.

Management architecture and complexity is the biggest challenge of virtualization

In the process of deploying virtualization, Chinese users view the management complexity of virtualization as the greatest challenge, followed by the performance and business stability of virtualization, and the new costs of deploying virtualization. This is closely related to the virtualization and deployment life of Chinese users, as well as China's virtualization penetration and usage management experience. In the survey, 80.5% of the respondents who have already deployed virtualization have less than 3 years of virtualization deployment, and fewer IT managers are professionally and regularly virtualization-trained. In addition, the Chinese market (especially enterprise-level) it tiered management (by server, network, storage, etc.) structure, is to limit the user production applications and business critical load virtualization is an important impediment. Ensure that virtualized production applications stabilize performance, security, and continuity, and need to focus on the workload as the core transparent monitoring management. And it tiered management architecture, whether in the choice of options, procurement processes, configuration management, troubleshooting and operational management, can not meet the virtualization application and load of dynamic resource allocation, real-time transparent monitoring and rapid troubleshooting needs. Another major challenge for virtualization is the large number of applications running on built-in systems or dedicated hardware that do not support virtualization. To avoid increased management complexity in virtualized deployments, users need a management platform that can manage both physical and virtual environments in a unified environment.

Virtualization Driven Fusion Architecture requirements

Virtualization-driven It deployments evolve into highly integrated and converged architectures to reduce the choice, deployment, and operational complexity of virtualization technologies, to ensure the performance and security of virtualized workloads, and to reduce the barrier to increased virtualization management complexity in the Chinese market. 43.3% of respondents selected "Server and storage integrated assessment and deployment-integrated solution Deployment"; 30.7% of the respondents chose to deploy the server first, then upgrade the storage as required. A highly integrated (converged) integrated assessment of the IT architecture is key to ensuring production applications and business-critical load virtualization.

Virtualization for servers, networks, storage requirements

On the server, storage and network virtualization requirements survey results show that 40.5% of respondents said server virtualization drives the need for higher configuration servers (CPU, memory, high availability, low latency, and remote and intelligent management capabilities). The network also plays a decisive role in the performance and security of virtualization applications. How to ensure the deployment efficiency of a large number of virtual machine network resources and the network resources needed for dynamic configuration of virtual machines, how to ensure the network performance and security of the virtual machine migration process is the key to the user to evaluate the virtualization network. Half of the respondents said that there was already storage to meet the needs of virtualization. 1/3 of respondents said storage does not meet virtualization needs. Two important considerations for determining whether storage meets current or future virtualization requirements are (1) the virtualization phase and future plans of the Enterprise, and (2) existing storage architectures and technologies. In the test and development environment virtualization, storage performance requirements are much lower than the production Application Virtualization environment, enterprise-class storage can basically meet the requirements. In the production application virtualization process, the dynamic configuration capacity of traditional storage architectures, parallel processing capabilities, and the performance of mixed load have certain limitations, users need innovative storage architecture to meet the performance of virtualized production applications stability, security, business continuity requirements. Virtualization does not mean cloud computing.

Private Cloud strong growth

In the virtualization and private cloud computing correlation survey, 74% of respondents considered virtualization to be the basis for implementing a private cloud. The Chinese market's acceptance of the private cloud (66.1%) is far higher than the mixed cloud (22..5%) and the public Cloud (11.4%). Currently, 12.6% of the respondents said they had completed a private cloud deployment. In the next 24 months, China's private cloud will be a leap-forward development. Surveys show that 32.9% of respondents will deploy private clouds over the next 12 months, and 32.1% will deploy private clouds over the next 12-24 months.

In the IT overall architecture intelligence and centralized management survey of the importance of private cloud, 44.7% of respondents choose "It architecture is one of the most important technologies for implementing private cloud"; 36.6% selection is the most important part of implementing private cloud, without it architecture centralized, unified, automated control, IT service delivery cannot be achieved ”。

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)