Most businesses and government departments have investigated or implemented server virtualisation with the aim of saving money. However, many IT departments have discovered that ny savings accrued from virtualisation ave be lost because storage capacity has gone through the roof.

According to various recent articles published in the USA, every $1 spent on server virtualisation requires a $2 to $3 spend on additional storage.

That’s good news for storage vendors but not so good for virtualisation savings advocates.

So do your maths before embarking on a server virtualisation strategy and be careful that you budget for all items that virtualisation will require.

Server and Storage virtualisation often coincides with consolidation projects to reduce infrastructure and IT management costs. The underlying objective is to use IT infrastructure to its maximum, to improve performance and to introduce total flexibility as to when and where the business needs to have resources available. If you are planning a project involving virtualisation or have already undertaken a virtualisation exercise, then we’d like to hear from you. We are keen to see whether the claims of savings and operational benefits made by the likes of Gartner and Forrester are true or not.