Quoting from ITPro:
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The survey of 100 IT directors by research company Vanson Bourne found these figures were even higher within financial services organisations with 81 per cent saying they were not using virtualisation technology throughout the business because of the perceived risks involved.
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Others cited concern that virtualisation would cause a degradation in application performance (57 per cent) or that the technology would be too expensive (31 per cent). Almost one third (29 per cent) said they feared that managing a virtualised environment would be too complex. The fear of downtime was the biggest worry for IT directors in the manufacturing (80 per cent) and financial services (71 per cent) sectors…
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