Businesses will increasingly turn to virtualization technologies to get more out of their IT assets, according to the United Kingdom's National Computing Center (NCC).
With Microsoft entering the virtualization fray with the Hyper-V application on its just launched Windows Server 2008, businesses are taking more interest in the technology.
Speaking about virtualization at the launch of Microsoft's latest server OS, Andrew Hopkirk, head of projects and programs at the NCC, said: "Even the skeptics are paying attention because the potential is there to be had."
He cited an NCC strategy survey of 120 tech execs in which a quarter said they are already doing something practical regarding virtualization.
Meanwhile, an NCC PMP survey found 48 percent of those surveyed are moving to a centralized IT environment--using virtualization--while 34 percent have already done so.
But Hopkirk added: "It's very much early days for this set of products. It's up to the market to test these products Microsoft is launching today."
Of Hyper-V, Microsoft's general manager of server and tools marketing, Larry Orecklin, said: "The feedback that we have received so far has been tremendously positive."
Tim Ferguson of Silicon.com reported from London.
Play video
There are currently no comments for this post.