ROME, July 30, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- virtualization.info (http://www.virtualization.info), the leading website about virtualization technologies since 2003, announces a new tool to improve the understanding of today's market landscape, the Virtualization Industry Challenges report.

Virtualization Industry Challenges is an up-to-date research analysis detailing major challenges that companies usually have to face once they decide to adopt virtualization technologies. The report exposes the limitations of existing commercial offerings, and the hidden shortcomings of existing technical approaches.

In its first edition, Virtualization Industry Challenges recognizes the ten most relevant issues as:

 1. Support
 2. Licensing
 3. Capacity Planning
 4. Reliability
 5. Provisioning
 6. Efficiency
 7. Scalability
 8. Security
 9. Accountability
 10. Responsibility

For each challenge, the report also lists companies providing products and solutions in that area to help customers focus their attention in the right direction.

Virtualization Industry Challenges Report is available free of charge online here, http://www.virtualization.info/challenges.

About virtualization.info

With more than 100,000 page views per month, virtualization.info is the leading website about virtualization technologies, products and market trends since 2003.

It provides daily coverage of the virtualization industry evolution, as well as unique tools to help worldwide IT managers recognize emerging players, established leaders' strategies, and valuable products among the rapidly-growing offerings. With more than 2,500 pages, virtualization.info is referred by 20,000 other sites, blogs, forums and newsgroups talking about virtualization.

Virtualization Industry Challenges report is the most recent tool virtualization.info offers to its readers. virtualization.info also publishes:

 * Virtualization Industry Radar
   (http://www.virtualization.info/radar), which tracks and evaluates
   companies that are actively involved in the virtualization market.

 * Virtualization Industry Roadmap
   (http://www.virtualization.info/roadmap), which lists all software
   that has been released by virtualization vendors since 2005.

 * Virtualization Industry Predictions
   (http://www.virtualization.info/predictions), which documents all
   of the predictions and forecasts about virtualization's market
   growth of major research firms that have been made since 2003.

virtualization.info is part of False Negatives, an independent analysis firm based in Rome, Italy, founded by Alessandro Perilli and focused on security and virtualization technologies.

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