CommVault Releases Results of End-User Virtualization Survey Reinforcing Need for Automated Scalable & Modern Data Management to Streamline Rapid Adoption of Virtualization
CommVault Releases Results of End-User Virtualization Survey Reinforcing Need for Automated Scalable & Modern Data Management to Streamline Rapid Adoption of Virtualization
CommVault has released the results of its Virtualization Survey, which
polled Simpana®
software customers worldwide to determine the key factors driving
adoption of server virtualization and the major challenges associated
with managing these environments.
A total of 479 respondents underscored the continued rise in server
virtualization, with 46 percent of those polled citing that between
51- and 85-percent of their total servers were virtualized while 21
percent reported successful virtualization of all or nearly all
servers. VMware
was listed as the virtualization platform of choice by 83 percent of
those polled.
The survey revealed that the top three factors driving server
virtualization decisions among the respondents are: the need for
improved business cost savings and efficiencies, customer
responsiveness and improved service levels. The opportunity to
leverage virtualization as an alternative disaster recovery strategy
was also cited.
The majority of CommVault customers polled for this survey are running
mission-critical applications on VMs in their production environment.
Some industry commentary has suggested that many organizations are
reluctant to deploy vital applications on virtualized infrastructures
because of data protection concerns. With Simpana software, CommVault
continues to address these concerns, effectively alleviating data
management difficulties in virtualized environments.
According to those polled, the top three challenges relative to
managing virtualized server environments include the inability to
backup all virtual machines VMs reliably and in a timely manner,
additional resource costs and administrative time due to lack of data
management automation and the increased demand for corporate-wide
virtualization.
Survey respondents are embracing Simpana software to overcome these
data management challenges and increase their IT agility. In choosing
Simpana software, they cited features/functionality, performance,
simplicity and scalability as major decision drivers.
Surge in Mission-Critical Applications Running on Virtual Machines
According to the survey results, 77 percent of the respondents are
running mission-critical applications on VMs in their production
environments and nearly 50 percent are running between 50-250 VMs.
According to the CommVault survey, ongoing virtualization projects are
generating increasingly larger amounts of data, with 36 percent of
those polled creating between 1-5 TBs of data and another 23 percent
generating between 6-10 TBs of data through VMs or VM-based
applications.
To protect this ongoing surge in virtualized data, more than half of
the CommVault survey participants rely only on backup copies as their
disaster recovery strategy while 18 percent utilize software
replication and 16 percent use hardware replication.
Industry research firm Enterprise Strategy Group ESG reinforces this
growing trend, identifying increased use of server virtualization as
the No. 1 IT priority over the next 12-18 months.1
Simpana Software Simplifies Virtualized Data Management, Reduces Time
and Costs
ESG also reports that more than half of the organizations it has
researched are using separate backup applications for virtual and
physical server environments, yet three out of four organizations
would prefer a single application to protect all servers.2
Respondents to CommVault’s survey cite as the top three operational
benefits from using Simpana software: ease of management due to its
single software platform, time and resource savings, and overall
reductions in hardware licensing costs.
According to CommVault, legacy data management tools lack the
intelligence, automation and scalability required to seamlessly move
data between physical and virtual IT infrastructures.
In contrast, CommVault Simpana software leverages a singular platform,
centralized management and advanced functionality to easily and
cost-effectively manage modern data centers with large populations of
virtual machines. With Simpana software, customers can protect both
physical and virtual servers in minutes while scaling to accommodate
thousands of VMs across global enterprises.
Methodology
CommVault distributed its virtualization survey via email to 10,076
Simpana software customers worldwide over an eight-day period starting
on August 12, 2010 and received 479 responses. Nearly 60 percent of
the survey participants reported they had responsibility for the
organization’s entire data management strategy, encompassing backup,
virtualization, archive, recovery, etc.
Of the survey respondents, 30 percent are employed at organizations
with more than 2,000 personnel while 35 percent work for companies
employing between 500 and 1,999 people.
Supporting Quotes
David West, vice president of marketing and business development for
CommVault: “The results of CommVault’s virtualization survey
reinforce what we’ve been hearing from our customers—embracing
virtualization can dramatically reduce costs and increase operational
efficiencies as long as you can easily and reliably manage the massive
volume of data produced by hundreds of VMs. With our unifying code
base and singular platform, Simpana software is uniquely equipped to
bridge the gap between the physical and virtual worlds of computing
while ensuring the highest levels of data management and protection.”
Lauren Whitehouse, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group: “Using
separate solutions to back up and recover physical and virtual systems
can be inefficient and lead to additional management overhead while
introducing complexity into the recovery process. ESG research
respondents are aware of this trade-off, which is why the overwhelming
majority cite a preferred approach of using a single backup
application for both virtual and physical environments.”
A singular vision – a belief in a better way to address current and
future data and information management needs – guides CommVault in the
development of Singular Information Management® solutions for
high-performance data protection, universal availability and simplified
management of data on complex storage networks. CommVault's exclusive
single-platform architecture gives companies unprecedented control over
data growth, costs and risk. CommVault’s Simpana® software modules were
designed to work together seamlessly from the ground up, sharing a
single code and common function set, to deliver superlative Data Backup,
Archive, Replication, Search and Resource Management capabilities. More
companies every day join those who have discovered the unparalleled
efficiency, performance, reliability, and control only CommVault can
offer. Information about CommVault is available at www.commvault.com.
CommVault's corporate headquarters is located in Oceanport, New Jersey
in the United States.
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Customers' results may differ materially from those stated herein;
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