Researchers: minds of Chief information officers are occupied by "clouds" and virtualization

The provider of the open-source Zenoss systems published the report (The Zenoss 2010 Virtualization and Cloud Computing survey) showing that virtualization and cloud computing technologies remain one of the most significant areas of corporate IT infrastructure.

In general survey results of 204 IT professional were not surprise. For example, in the report it is said that in the market of virtualization by the leader the VMware company is: 79.3% of respondents answered that they use a hypervisor of VMware.

More than 40% of respondents called the main reason of use of virtualization flexibility which such technologies give them. 40.7% answered that they prefer to use virtual servers, 29.3% - that do it when it is only possible. 33.3% also designated as the reason of use of technologies of virtualization economy on the equipment.

However, there is in the document and a number of uncommon outputs and data. For example, it is interesting that 30% of respondents use also Xen hypervisor in addition to software of VMware, and more than 70% - prefer tools which manage all their infrastructure (as opposed to virtualization of the specific solution).

Besides, the number of deployments of Linux exceeds number of deployments of Windows approximately on a third, but this anomaly can be connected with the fact that respondents already actively use open-source software.

The fact that respondents use more than one technology of virtualization (VMware, Xen, and even KVM) shows what really happens in this market now. And also proves that possibilities for growth both Linux, and Windows of an environment are still very big.

As for "cloud" technologies, are most widely used by Amazon Web Services, and, most likely, this pattern and will remain even if such sceptics as Oracle will create the applications available on EC2. Security issues of cloud solutions still disturb the greatest number of respondents, 40% from them defined them as the main objective, the report says.