Virtualisation Another thing many IT professionals have in common is the use of virtualisation technology. More than three-quarters of respondents said their organisations are virtualising their servers. The top workloads involved are IT-related: 83% are using virtual servers to provide IT services such as storage and printing, while 76% report using them to handle internal IT concerns, such as security and inventory management. Companies with virtualised servers may look to cloud solutions as a logical next step, in order to take advantage of the benefits of self-service provisioning and the ability to scale as usage changes. Virtualisation adoption 78% Yes 6% No, but I plan to within 6 months 14% No, and I don’t plan to within 6 months 2% Not sure The Small Business Cloud Outlook - Virtualisation 9