Around 91 percent of businesses in Vietnam expect to virtualise atleast 30 percent of their IT infrastructure in the next two year,according to a survey conducted by VMware Inc (NYSE: VMW), a globalleader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure.
The findings indicate that businesses in the highly virtualised categorywill rise from the existing 11 percent to 35 percent by 2017.
As many as 445 business and IT managers and decision makersparticipated in the VMware Vietnam Business Survey conducted fromJanuary to March 2015.
"The positive virtualisationtrends in Vietnam would mean long-term business savings as the IDCDatacentre Economies Index estimated that businesses in the Asia Pacificregion would be able to avoid nearly 100 billion USD in costs between2014 - 2020 as a result of virtualisation of computing, storage andnetworking hardware, and leveraging a software-defined approach tomanaging IT," said country manager Huynh Phuc Yem Quan at the report'srelease in early March.
The savings would come fromfour key areas of hardware, real estate/maintenance, administration, andpower and cooling from 2014 to 2020.
"As the ASEAN'ssecond most mobile and social market, Vietnam's on-demand andhyper-connected workforce is changing the marketplace to one that isincreasingly fluid and instant. It has become imperative for businessesin the country to look to technology and effectively leverage the cloudto stay competitive," he said.
Vietnam businessesdefine their top three IT priorities for 2015 as providing disasterrecovery and business continuity (25 percent), ensuring IT security anddata protection (29 percent), and reduction of enterprise costs (24percent).
The strong focus on turning tosoftware-defined data centres could be attributed to the addedtechnology advantages of virtualisation.
In the questfor productivity among businesses, organisations in Vietnam that canrapidly provide new services in a secure and highly availableenvironment, while scaling dynamically as the business grows in acost-effective manner, will in turn be able to succeed in this new era.
Optimizing resource utilisation (42 percent) andimproving operational efficiency (25 percent) were identified as the keydrivers for adopting software-defined data centres.
The survey showed that there had been a paradigm shift in the ITexpectations of enterprises, from being just a productivity andefficiency driver to a catalyst in achieving business outcomes.
"With measures to continuously drive economic growth and challenges,including lesser resources such as land and manpower, businesses inVietnam need to consider adopting technologies such as virtualisationand software-defined data centres for operational efficiency and betterresource utilisation," said Quan.
This storageefficiency factor from virtualisation has allowed less physical storagecapacity to be purchased. From this reduction in physical storagerequired, more savings in hardware spending, and reduction in costs frompower and cooling, data centre space and storage administration canalso be realised.
Costs (56 percent), businessculture (19 percent), followed by lack of information (14 percent), wereidentified as the top barriers to adoption of software-defined datacentres.-VNA
The findings indicate that businesses in the highly virtualised categorywill rise from the existing 11 percent to 35 percent by 2017.
As many as 445 business and IT managers and decision makersparticipated in the VMware Vietnam Business Survey conducted fromJanuary to March 2015.
"The positive virtualisationtrends in Vietnam would mean long-term business savings as the IDCDatacentre Economies Index estimated that businesses in the Asia Pacificregion would be able to avoid nearly 100 billion USD in costs between2014 - 2020 as a result of virtualisation of computing, storage andnetworking hardware, and leveraging a software-defined approach tomanaging IT," said country manager Huynh Phuc Yem Quan at the report'srelease in early March.
The savings would come fromfour key areas of hardware, real estate/maintenance, administration, andpower and cooling from 2014 to 2020.
"As the ASEAN'ssecond most mobile and social market, Vietnam's on-demand andhyper-connected workforce is changing the marketplace to one that isincreasingly fluid and instant. It has become imperative for businessesin the country to look to technology and effectively leverage the cloudto stay competitive," he said.
Vietnam businessesdefine their top three IT priorities for 2015 as providing disasterrecovery and business continuity (25 percent), ensuring IT security anddata protection (29 percent), and reduction of enterprise costs (24percent).
The strong focus on turning tosoftware-defined data centres could be attributed to the addedtechnology advantages of virtualisation.
In the questfor productivity among businesses, organisations in Vietnam that canrapidly provide new services in a secure and highly availableenvironment, while scaling dynamically as the business grows in acost-effective manner, will in turn be able to succeed in this new era.
Optimizing resource utilisation (42 percent) andimproving operational efficiency (25 percent) were identified as the keydrivers for adopting software-defined data centres.
The survey showed that there had been a paradigm shift in the ITexpectations of enterprises, from being just a productivity andefficiency driver to a catalyst in achieving business outcomes.
"With measures to continuously drive economic growth and challenges,including lesser resources such as land and manpower, businesses inVietnam need to consider adopting technologies such as virtualisationand software-defined data centres for operational efficiency and betterresource utilisation," said Quan.
This storageefficiency factor from virtualisation has allowed less physical storagecapacity to be purchased. From this reduction in physical storagerequired, more savings in hardware spending, and reduction in costs frompower and cooling, data centre space and storage administration canalso be realised.
Costs (56 percent), businessculture (19 percent), followed by lack of information (14 percent), wereidentified as the top barriers to adoption of software-defined datacentres.-VNA
