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CDW Corp. conducted an informal survey of 420 IT managers across the United States in spring 2006 to determine the breadth and depth of activity in server optimization, defined as consolidation and virtualization to maximize utilization rates, reduce power consumption and required center space while improving application performance and uptime. The poll also looked at several technologies, including virtualization, blade servers and dual-core servers, to determine what technologies IT managers are implementing or plan to implement. The results provide insights about what companies consider key business and IT drivers for server optimization, as well as perceived benefits and obstacles to server optimization.
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Business Factors Driving Server Optimization
- Two thirds of IT managers cite reduced costs as a key business driver
- More than half cite business process improvements as a key driver
- About half of IT managers polled cite increased business uptime as a key business driver
Surprise Emergence of Improved Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery as a Key IT Driver
- More than half of IT managers responding to the poll cite improved business continuity/disaster recovery as reasons for server optimization
- Forty-three percent of IT managers ranked improving quality of service levels/network performance as a top IT driver
- Thirty-one percent of IT managers ranked server sprawl as a key IT driver
Technologies Driving Server Optimization
- Virtualization technologies, including virtual partitions, were cited by 26 percent of respondents as primary planned or current server optimization technologies
- Blade servers were cited by 22 percent of respondents as driving server optimization, followed by dual-core servers, cited by 21 of respondents as primary drivers
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