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Virtualisation is top of the agenda
(PIC of people/person looking The survey found that partners view
anxious/worried) their customers’ business challenges
Hitachi Data Systems has as being closely linked to IT
revealed its UK partners’ challenges. For example, 83% predict
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predictions for the next 12 that reducing operational cost within
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months. Partners were asked the IT infrastructure will be a key
what they thought were the issue facing customers.
biggest business challenges
facing their customers in the next An overwhelming majority (75%) also
year. Due to economic pressures said businesses face the challenge of
80% of partners believed that having to optimise their existing IT
operational costs will be the infrastructure as IT Managers are
biggest challenge and 78% saw under increasing pressure to do
capital costs creating obstacles more with less. Partners also saw
for customers. A staggering budget constraints (73%), as an IT
majority (87%) of channel challenge that customers will be
respondents said virtualisation is faced with. In an attempt to meet times. Only 16% thought that
the technology solution that these challenges, according to 35% reducing the environmental footprint
customers will be investing in, of partners, businesses will be of an IT infrastructure was a key IT
suggesting that customers see looking to increase the utilisation of issue, suggesting that IT issues that
this technology as key to their storage infrastructures as they do not directly impact business
surviving in these tough attempt to ensure optimum use of performance are no longer at the top
economic times. their IT infrastructure in tighter of the IT Manager’s agenda.
Virtualisation set for change
As the cost efficiencies of As 63% of IT leaders look to improve mainstream as it offers such strong
virtualisation propel the IT infrastructure flexibility to meet cost, space and energy savings.
technology into the mainstream, changing business priorities driven However, the future drivers for the
other new catalysts are emerging by the current economic recession, technology will control a lot of its
according to new research almost half (46%) said that they were evolution. The first stage in this
commissioned by Fujitsu intending to implement server development is that virtualisation will
Technology Solutions. virtualisation to achieve corporate move out of the data centre and onto
The report, entitled “Dynamic and operational change within their the desktop,” said Paul Parrish, UK
Infrastructures and the Future of organisation. managing director, Fujitsu.
IT” explores the need for
increased flexibility and agility in Twenty-nine per cent of respondents “It is clear that server virtualisation
the current economic conditions. identified that they would be will be a key technology in enabling
This is set to become the planning a desktop virtualisation businesses to handle corporate and
cornerstone of improved project. This compared with 21% who operational change and that this
competitive advantage. 39% of propose moving to managed desktop change will be aimed towards
IT leaders acknowledge that environments and 22% who are securing competitive advantage.
using IT to drive such an edge is looking at moving to cloud These IT leaders are looking for
critical for them to contribute computing. flexibility and agility as second wave
towards the profitability of the “Like outsourcing, virtualisation has benefits, on top of the savings and
business. rapidly moved into the business efficiencies.
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