Isilon White Paper Sample

The server virtualization revolution has permanently altered the IT landscape by eliminating the 1:1 relationship between applications and servers, abstracting hardware from software. The dramatic effect of this has been the creation of dynamic application and server environments that are more responsive to the needs of the business. The revolution is still in its early phases—while server virtualization deployment is broad, meaning many companies have deployed server virtualization, the same cannot be said of its depth, or just how many of the server workloads have been virtualized in the average user’s environment. This is demonstrated by research ESG conducted in the fall of 2010: in that survey, a whopping 74% of North American enterprise and large midmarket organizations reported current use of server virtualization. But most of these organizations, a full 58% of them, had virtualized less than a third of the servers that they considered their potential virtualization targets.