This Key Findings report discusses real benefits, pain points, barriers, and priorities in managing virtual environments

These Key Findings are the results of the End User Survey within this FOCUS Research Series which examines experiences of 250+ advanced virtualization users and analyzes: the current adoption of various types of virtualization and hypervisors, business drivers and actual benefits, pain points and barriers to growth, priorities and feature requirements for virtualization management, applications being/not being virtualized and more. This Report discusses the Key Findings, with the complete findings available in  the Complete Report, available at:

This FOCUS Complete End User Survey Research  Report provides an in-depth analysis of the experiences of 250+ advanced virtualization users and analyzes: the current adoption of various types of virtualization and hypervisors, business drivers and actual benefits, pain points and barriers to growth, priorities and feature requirements for virtualization management, applications being/not being virtualized and more.

This FOCUS Research Series: Virtualization Management Landscape Report gives an in-depth look at a virtualization management taxonomy and the vendors in this landscape. It includes a market analysis, overview & taxonomy, decision criteria, key partnerships & delivery models, with complete features matrices comparing available virtualization management product offerings, based on features rated by users in the survey.

The Landscape Report covers products from the following vendors: Akorri, BlueStripe, BMC, CA, Catbird, CiRBA, Citrix, Double-Take, DynamicOps, Embotics, FalconStor, FastScale, Fortisphere, HP, Hyper9, IBM, Microsoft, Neptuny, NetApp, PlateSpin, Reflex Systems, Surgient, Symantec, Tek-Tools, Tripwire, Uptime Software, Vizioncore, VKernel, and VMware.
 

This Complete FOCUS Research Series on  Virtualization Management includes the Complete User Survey Report and the Complete Landscape Report:

• FOCUS Research Series: End User Survey Complete Research Report examining the current state of virtualization management, including pain points, barriers to growth, priorities, and the effect of financial constraints.
• FOCUS Research Series: Virtualization Management Landscape Report, detailing virtualization management taxonomy and vendors. Includes market analysis, overview & taxonomy, decision criteria, key partnerships & delivery models, with features matrices comparing available virtualization management product offerings, based on features rated by users in the survey.
• The Series covers products from the following vendors: Akorri, BlueStripe, BMC, CA, Catbird, CiRBA, Citrix, Double-Take, DynamicOps, Embotics, FalconStor, FastScale, Fortisphere, HP, Hyper9, IBM, Microsoft, Neptuny, NetApp, PlateSpin, Reflex Systems, Surgient, Symantec, Tek-Tools, Tripwire, Uptime Software, Vizioncore, VKernel, and VMware.
   

This FOCUS Brief discusses the factors driving IT in their choices of management solutions. It describes the Vizioncore suite for virtual infrastructure management and the key benefits of the solutions. The Brief discusses the markets addressed by the solutions and concludes with a FOCUS assessment of the solutions.

FOCUS Brief describes the factors driving IT to seek improved manageability of storage within the virtual infrastructure, and details Akorri’s BalancePoint solution, listing key benefits.  The Brief concludes with a FOCUS assessment.

This FOCUS Brief describes what is driving IT to seek improved security and manageability of the virtual infrastructure, and details Reflex Systems’ Secure Virtualization Management solution, listing key benefits.  The Brief concludes with a FOCUS assessment.