How to measure virtualization ROI
January 22, 2009
Virtualization may very well be all it’s cracked up to be, but most small and midsize enterprises will never know it because they lack pre- and post-deployment ROI evaluation tools.
“SMBs don’t have adequate measurement programs in place to determine if they are achieving the maximum ROI on their virtualization programs,” says Kevin Tolly, founder of The Tolly Group, a consulting, testing, and research firm in Boca Raton, Fla. “That’s more likely to be seen in larger enterprises with more IT staff.”
Indeed, a recent study conducted for Accelerate by IDG Research Services found that fully 75 percent of SMBs say they have no post-deployment process to evaluate returns from server virtualization investments.