IDC predicts over 50% physical servers will be virtualized in 2011

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Thursday, July 12, 2007 | 1 Comments

Quoting from ITPro:

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At a VMware event in London IDC analyst Chris Ingles said that virtualisation is increasingly being used for core business processes.

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Ingles said he expects the number of physical servers which are virtualised to jump from seven per cent this year to 50 per cent in 2011. "That may be a little bit conservative," he said...

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This month IDC also predicted that physical server market will hardly grow over 2% annually through 2011 because of virtualization and that virtualization services market will reach $11.7 billion by 2011.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Predictions has been updated accordingly.

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Patrick Friday, July 13, 2007 10:46:00 PM

It will be interesting to look back at this projection (educated guess, really) in 1 or 2 years time to see how good a crystal ball IDC really has. Analyst firms have been known to latch onto an IT trend, forecast strong growth and self-fulfilling prophesies (e.g., IDC with app servers circa 2002; Yankee Group with eMarketplaces circa 2001; Dataquest with Web services adoption circa 2000) in order to drive business. Virtualization very well may be the gold mine that IDC predicts.

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