Last week CMP Channel revealed results of a virtualization survey conducted in November 2007 among North American VARs.

It exposes interesting informations like:

• Less than 23% of VARs currently resells virtualization technologies (769 interviewed)
• Only 11% of VARs plan to sell OS virtualization in the next 12 months (116 interviewed)
• Customers turn to virtualization mostly for server consolidation (72.4%) and disaster recovery (71.6%) (116 interviewed)
• Virtualization generated over 20% of VARs revenue in the last 12 months (41 interviewed)
• Lack of experience is the very first challenge (32.8%) in selling virtualization (116 interviewed)