"A recent Avocent survey polling nearly 300 IT managers shows 89 per cent of those polled are virtualising servers, a major jump in the adoption rate over just last year," said Grimes.

Enterprise data centre managers, in particular, must be enabled to scale their infrastructure quickly to meet changing business demands. And Avocent feels this can be better managed with its newest version of DSView 3 Management Software.

With support for Citrix XenServer virtual environments, administration managers can use a single browser-based management tool for a federated view of multiple virtual and physical servers in a single screen, which the vendor says is important for managing virtual servers that are in a constant state of change.

DSView 3 Software also offers improved visibility into server environments, with alerts, so that if a host server starts to have an issue, virtualised servers can quickly be moved to another host physical server to ensure business continuity.