Identifying critical factors for corporate implementing virtualization technology

Virtualization technology has attracted great attention with its advantages of multiple platform operation and resultant cost and power reduction. This study investigated the key factors for corporations to implement virtualization information environment from the viewpoint of IT staffs. Through purposeful sampling, 400 effective questionnaires were collected from IT personnel currently working in the virtualization-related fields. From key factor analysis, seven influential factors were identified for corporations to implement virtualization. These seven factors include: (1) system quality, (2) information quality, (3) simplified management and maintenance, (4) integration of resources, (5) cost reduction, (6) ease of deployment, test and development, and (7) organizational consensus. Based on the obtained findings, suggestions for corporations and to IT system integrators were provided to the implementation of virtualization information environment. The scales developed in this study provide useful measures to study common factors of the implementation of virtualization information technology.