Majority of Enterprises Are Disappointed in Virtualization's Cost Savings

CA Technologies today announced the results of an independently conducted innovation survey* on the state of IT automation. The survey of 460 IT decision-makers from medium and large enterprises found that more than 60 percent are disappointed in virtualization's cost savings. In addition, respondents believe that automation plays a key role in reaping the financial benefits of virtualization and cloud computing.

The promised benefits of virtualization

"This survey furthermore demonstrates that the promised benefits of virtualization and cloud computing will be hard to realize without first standardizing and automating routine IT processes," said Roger Pilc, general manager, Virtualization and Automation, CA Technologies. "Without automation, IT staff can be overwhelmed by the complexities and challenges of managing a highly distributed IT infrastructure consisting of virtual and physical servers, applications and dynamic cloud-based services. These complexities can negate any benefits organizations hope to realize as this data shows."

To become more efficient and to realize the full benefits from virtualization and cloud computing, IT organizations need to automate and integrate the physical and virtual server configuration, provisioning, monitoring, security, software patching and more across a heterogeneous enterprise. They need to reduce their reliance on manual processes, and implement tools and procedures that automate standard management and administrative tasks, as so then as deliver consistent workload management. IT automation is needed to ease management across a variety of computing environments, including physical, virtual and cloud.

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