BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - February 3, 2009) - In a new benchmark research report by Aberdeen
Group, a Harte-Hanks Company (
NYSE:
HHS), "Virtual Vigilance: Managing
Application Performance in Virtual Environments," it was revealed that
organizations conducting server, desktop, and storage virtualization
projects are experiencing 18% reductions in infrastructure cost and 15%
savings in utility cost. The report also found that organizations that are
trying to improve the performance of business-critical applications in
physical environments are more likely to experience performance
improvements as compared to their peers that are looking to achieve the
same goals -- only in virtualized environments. To obtain a complimentary
copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=5571.
"Even though organizations could experience significant cost savings from
conducting virtualization projects, these benefits could diminish if they
don't have capabilities in place for effective management of application
performance. One of the key challenges for these organizations is that the
effective management of application performance in virtualized environments
requires a set of capabilities and functionalities that were not required
when these organizations were looking to achieve same performance goals in
physical environments. Understanding what these capabilities are is making
the difference between success and failure of virtualization projects as
measured from business prospective," said Bojan Simic, research analyst,
Aberdeen.
Aberdeen surveyed 137 end-user organizations and found that lack of
visibility into entire transaction flow and inability to anticipate
performance issues while conducting virtualization projects are the top
obstacles for achieving the optimal level of application performance in
virtualized environments. The report also found that while the majority of
organizations surveyed reported that virtualization projects caused issues
with the quality of end-user experience, visibility into application
performance and bandwidth utilization, Best-in-Class organizations
experienced significant improvements in the performance of
business-critical applications after conducting virtualization projects.
Aberdeen's analysis of the Best-in-Class reveals 10 capabilities that are
making a significant impact on application performance in virtualized
environments as measured by some of the key performance indicators. Some of
these capabilities are: ability to assess interdependencies between virtual
and physical systems, formal communication channels between systems and
application management team, tools for automated discovery of servers and
applications in virtualized environments, tools for accelerating virtual
desktop user traffic and tools for predicting application performance in
virtualized environments.
A complimentary copy of this report is made available due in part by the
following underwriters: BlueStripe Software and Shunra Software. To
obtain a complimentary copy of the report, visit:
http://www.aberdeen.com/link/sponsor.asp?spid=30410182&cid=5571.
For additional access to complimentary Information Technology Research,
please visit
http://research.aberdeen.com/index.php/-information-technology.
About Aberdeen Group, a Harte-Hanks Company
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than 30,000 companies in the past two years, Aberdeen is uniquely
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Contact Information: Media Contact:
Bojan Simic
Aberdeen Harte-Hanks
(617) 854-5281
bojan.simic@aberdeen.com