DOSSIER Company: Symantec Established: 1982 headquarters: Mountain View, California products: Security, storage and systems management solutions Employees: Over 18,500 worldwide
Downtime and virtualisation Anand Naik, Director – Technology Sales (India and SAARC), Symantec talks to Varun Aggarwal about some of the challenges and solutions for adopting virtualisation
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What do you think are the challenges in the adoption of virtualisation model among CIOs in India? Virtualisation is gaining ground in terms of the interest towards its adoption sees an increase. According to the India findings from the 2011 Symantec Virtualisation and Evolution to the Cloud Survey. Enterprises must take into account how the dynamic nature of virtualisation may actually increase management complexity. Some of the additional issues are as follows: Managing the virtual machine sprawl as the number of machines increase. According to the 2010 Symantec Disaster Recovery Study, 50