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ScienceLogic Announces Results of Survey

Published: November 14, 2007

100 network and systems administrators from a variety of business segments were surveyed to determine the changing needs of IT operations.

The importance of virtualization and the relative lack of focus on best practices in corporate IT proved to be some of the key findings in a survey conducted at Interop New York 2007 by ScienceLogic, a provider of integrated solutions for systems, network and application monitoring. During the course of the trade show, 100 network and systems administrators from a variety of business segments were surveyed to determine the changing needs of IT operations.

One of the more overwhelming results of the survey highlighted virtualization management. More than 75 percent of respondents said that management of their virtualized environment was "important to very important" to their operations, and over 80 percent stated that they had a solution in place now or would have one within the next year.

"Deploying virtualization for benefits such as server consolidation is increasingly become a fact of IT life," said David Link, CEO and Founder of ScienceLogic. "But along with the benefits come some causes for concern. The rapid pace of virtualization adoption has actually left some traditional management vendors behind. It’s early days yet for supporting tools and technologies, and IT organizations need to take this into consideration as they evaluate solutions today."