Businesses striving for a more agile IT environment need to pay close attention to server virtualisation and service oriented architecture (SOA) as these two areas are being tipped for success by research published today.
But, while many organisations are expressing interest in both these technologies, they're not backing up the enthusiasm with action when it comes to SOA, according to analyst Butler Group.
Butler's research found that some 69 per cent of companies have deployed or tested a server virtualisation solution.
But when it came to SOA, just eight per cent of the two-thirds who said they were evaluating or adopting the methodology had actually deployed live services.
