This Key Findings Report is an executive summary of the FOCUS Research User Survey which examines experiences of 250+ advanced virtualization users and analyzes: the current adoption of various types of virtualization and hypervisors, business drivers and actual benefits, pain points and barriers to growth, priorities and feature requirements for virtualization management, applications being/not being virtualized and more.

The FOCUS Research Series: Managing the Virtual Environment, of which this report is part, uses a taxonomy of virtualization management which covers key management areas identified by FOCUS. These areas include Virtual Machine (VM) Life Cycle Management and Provisioning, Capacity Management, Performance Management, Fault Management and Root Cause Analysis, Storage Management and Data Protection, and Security Management. Each area brings a set of requirements that IT must consider in order to develop a well-managed virtual infrastructure. This research series shows where user priorities are across these management areas, as well as user ratings on required features within each area. 

This Report discusses the Key Findings, with the complete findings available in  the Complete Report, available at:

 FOCUS Report: Virtualization Management: Complete User Survey Report