Virtualization in the data center has broken out of the experimental and testing stage in many IT shops, but there are still a great many large-enterprise CIOs who <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Infrastructure/Many-IT-Admins-Still-Not-Sold-on-Virtualization/?kc=EWKNLNAV021408STR1">are not completely sold</A> on using it in daily production.

New research reported Feb. 12 that worldwide, 54 percent of large enterprises rate management of their virtual server environment as a critical or high IT priority. Yet only 45 percent think their companies are doing an effective job in this area.