UPDATED 10:53 EDT / JULY 25 2011

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IDC: A Look at France and its Move to Virtualization

Last week, EMC, VMware and Accenture announced the results of research performed by IDC France regarding cloud maturity amongst French companies. The results reveal that large companies in France believe that cloud services could help their business needs and they are now slowly shaping their IT systems for virtualization.

The respondents of the study are composed of large French companies with over 2,000 employees from all industries. One of the key findings of the result is that one out of every four French companies have already virtualized some of their client desktops. Moreover, 17% of the companies will virtualize their desktop within 18 months.

French companies are also becoming more aware that virtualization is not just about cost savings alone. A similar research that was done 18 months ago revealed that 80% of the companies believed that cost saving is the most important benefit of virtualization. However, the recent study shows that only 55% of the companies today still support the idea. Majority of the companies also believe that virtualization would lead to cloud computing. 90% of the companies are already started to virtualize their server environments. The study also showed that private cloud is the most preferred cloud environment for French companies with only 15% of the companies are willing to have a public cloud environment.

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French companies are slowly shifting into service industrialization. 49% of the companies have are already committed to SLAs and 44% are already simplified their IT-service request processes.

“This survey covers most of the strategic issues CIOs have to deal with on short and mid-term bases to define their IT strategies and investments”, comments Jean-Yves Pronier, Communications and Marketing Manager, EMC. “In order to keep up, they must change the way they operate to transform their traditional infrastructures into private cloud datacenters and deliver IT as a Service to both internal and external customers. Private cloud, the next big IT trend, can help them reach that goal”.


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