Virtualization Adoption Survey 2008 - Hardware Virtualization
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What is the size of your company?
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Less than 10 employees
From 10 to 100 employees
From 100 to 1000 employees
Over 1000 employees
Single professional
Other:
Where your company is located?
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North America
Europe / Middle-East / Africa
Asia Pacific
Latin America
What is your job title?
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CEO
CIO / CTO
IT Manager
System Architect / Engineer
Software Architect / Engineer
Consultant
Researcher
Other:
Where hardware virtualization is being adopted in your company? (multiple choice)
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It's standardized in every department
In production environment
In development / testing environments
Nowhere
Other:
What is the current adoption level of hardware virtualization in your company?
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I already implemented one or more virtualization projects
I'm planning / implementing my first virtualization project
I'm still evaluating virtualization approaches / products
I have no idea of what virtualization is for
Other:
What hardware virtualization platform do you implement? (multiple choice)
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VMware ESX
Citrix XenServer
Virtual Iron
Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux with Xen
Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Xen
Oracle VM
Microsoft Hyper-V
KVM
None
Other:
How many virtual machines do you have deployed at the moment?
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More than 1000
Between 500 and 1000
Between 100 and 500
Between 50 and 100
Between 1 and 50
None
Which tasks are you employing virtualization for? (multiple choice)
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Sever consolidation
Virtual desktops hosting
Legacy application maintainance
Transition to 64bits platforms
Disaster recovery
Software development
Testing and demo
Other:
What is the biggest challenge in your virtualization projects?
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Choose the right product / platform
Complete a cost-effective capacity planning
Manage different virtualization platforms all together
Perform reliable virtual machines backups / restores
Achieve virtual machines high availability
Control virtual machines provisioning / limit virtual machines sprawl
Automate virtual machines provisioning
Track virtual machines lifecycle
Pinpoint and solve virtual infrastructure bottlenecks
Receive ISVs support for the hypervisor of choice
None
Other:
Which is the biggest obstacle you found so far in adopting virtualization?
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High cost of entry
Low return on investment
Poor performance
Poor ISVs support
Technical issues
None
Other: