We at ControlUp provide a lean, cloud-based platform for infrastructure monitoring, troubleshooting, and analytics. With our customers’ permission, we are able to research a broad range of IT operations issues and troubleshooting actions.

For this report we dove into resource provisioning of 148,000 servers across 943 organizations.

• Are organizations over-provisioning VMs? Yes, by 90%+.
• What are the implications of over-provisioning? Cost AND performance hit.
• Are newer OSs consuming more resources or less? 20%-30% less.
• What steps should we take towards right-sizing VMs? It’s complicated, but certainly doable.