{"id":6362,"date":"2011-03-29T09:43:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/?p=6362"},"modified":"2011-03-29T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T15:43:26","slug":"whos-using-virtualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2011\/03\/29\/whos-using-virtualization\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#039;s using virtualization?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education, construction, and lawyers are using virtualization the least, <a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/topic\/132698\">according to a recent data sample of 100,000 companies from Spiceworks<\/a>. On the other end of the spectrum, software, energy, and aerospace companies are big users. Spiceworks asked me to write-up some commentary on this (and a few more future) data analysis over their massive, mostly SMB IT user-base. They also ranked hyper-visor usage by vendor.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to get a sense from the two end the usage spectrum, Education and Software, of how and why virtualization is being used. Do do that, I talked with <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/jfluhmann\">Jeremy Fluhman<\/a>n (Technology Director for Winters ISD) and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/mattray\">Matt Ray<\/a> who works at Opscode (one of the more advanced IT management startups). Both gave me good insight into how their industries are using virtualization.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote up my commentary over on <a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/pages\/redmonk\">our brand-spankin&#8217; new Spiceworks page<\/a>. Tragically, the page doesn&#8217;t let me link directly to the post, but it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/pages\/redmonk?show=discussions\">at the top of the discussion forum, so you can get to it pretty easily<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/community.spiceworks.com\/pages\/redmonk?show=discussions\">check it out<\/a> if you&#8217;re interested in how folks are (or <i>are not yet<\/i>) using virtualization.<\/p>\n<p><b>Disclosure:<\/b> Spiceworks is a client, as is Opscode, VMWare, and Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the story with the least users of virtualization, education, and the most, software?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[157,269,414,481,572,716,717,811],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-systems-management","tag-cases","tag-education","tag-jeremy-fluhman","tag-matt-ray","tag-opscode","tag-spiceworks","tag-spiceworks-data-commentary","tag-virtualization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}