Techworld published an interview with the IBM Vice President of Virtualisation, Rich Lechner.
He said a couple of interesting things:
We regularly survey IBM and non-IBM customers, and 54 per cent either have or will implement virtualisation this year. For SMBs — that’s companies with under 1,000 employees — the adoption rate is the same as for big enterprises which is very unusual for a new technology. Sixty per cent of all virtualisation engagements are in SMBs and their pain points are same as those of the big customers: cutting costs, consolidation, and handling storage growth while containing IT admin costs.
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Bear in mind that total cost of ownership is becoming less important than flexibility, availability, and enabling SLAs.
Read the whole interview at source.