Survey Finds Average Participating Organization Saves Over $1 Million by Adopting VLM Solutions
From August 2009 to February 2010, voke conducted an independent survey of 100 organizations using virtual lab management technology. The survey found that organizations are leveraging this technology well beyond the testing lab, and achieving significant ROI from VLM technology in every usage scenario.
The VLM market is expanding significantly since the original survey (see Market Snapshot: Virtual Lab Automation – March 29, 2007), and solutions have matured and have seen broad adoption in the market. Economic conditions and application complexity continue to drive organizations to investigate and invest in technology that will deliver increased productivity and lower capital expenditures. In addition, since 2007, the number of vendors offering virtual lab management solutions has tripled.
What has changed since the initial 2007 Market Snapshot is the expanded use of virtual lab management beyond the initial and intended audience of development and test labs. Virtual lab technology is no longer just for development, QA, and operations. Other stakeholders in the business, such as sales, customer support, marketing, technical publications, and training, are all taking advantage of VLM technology, which is befitting of anyone who needs an on-demand virtual environment.
“Virtual lab management continues to prove itself as a rare, real, breakthrough use of technology revolutionizing the computing industry and the enterprise,” said Theresa Lanowitz, lead analyst for voke, inc. “Virtualization remains the defining technology of the 21st century. VLM has proven to be immediately effective at containing costs, delivering efficiencies in the provisioning of lab equipment, and eliminating both perceived and real bottlenecks. The market potential for this technology has the opportunity to exceed the market penetration of hypervisor solutions and application lifecycle combined. This significant market opportunity exists in the application lifecycle market as well as non-development focused organizations such as sales, support, training, marketing, and many others.”
The research examines the scope of virtual lab management technology usage, how it was funded, what groups were using the technology, the rationale for adoption, the degree to which integration of virtual lab management with application lifecycle management tools was desired and achieved, and technology challenges that must be addressed to encourage further deployment.
Virtual lab management technology delivers clear, measurable, and quick ROI. Survey participants reported the following measurable results from the use of virtual lab management.
Based on this research, it is clear that virtual lab management is poised to be the hub of the modern application lifecycle. For the first time in the history of the application lifecycle, the de facto nature of a technology streamlines connections and overcomes key barriers across the three pillars of IT: development, QA, and operations.
Vendors covered in the report include Citrix, CloudShare, Microsoft, Skytap, Surgient, VMLogix and VMWare. This Market Snapshot report and the full library of voke publications are available to subscribers at www.vokeinc.com. Press may receive a complimentary copy of the full report by contacting the media contact listed below.
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Robert Nachbar
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