Virtualization Used for BCP

Virtualization continues in 2008 to be a hot topic, as blogs are full of posts about it, new products continue to emerge, mergers of virtualization-related companies take place, and studies dig into the technology.

A recent Computer Associates-sponsored, independent study surveyed 300 CIOs of large companies around the world. The published results have a ton of interesting statistics about virtualization and future uses and concerns for the technology. For BCP purposes -the two interesting statistics were:

1. 34% (worldwide) said that the current use of virtualization was to "Support business continuity disaster recovery".
2. That same response was listed by 45% of respondents for the planned use of virtualization use 18 months from now.

Slides can be found here

and an article about the study on the Contingency Planning and Management site here