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Virtualization Industry Predictions 2008

VMware predicts the end of Windows in 5-10 years
VMware - July 2008
4 million virtual machines expected by 2009, 611 million virtualized PCs by 2011 and the IT infrastructure and operations deeply impacted by virtualization by 2012
Gartner - April 2008
APAC virtualization market to reach $1.35 billion by 2010
Springboard Research - April 2008
Cisco, VMware and Citrix will dominate the virtualization market within 2010
Saugatuck Technologies - January 2008
Virtualized servers to reach 45% of the market share in India by the end of 2008
IDC - January 2008

Virtualization Industry Predictions 2007

2/3 of enterprises will adopt virtualization by 2009
Forrester - December 2007
Virtualization 2.0 will come in 2008
Gartner - October 2007
Virtual desktops will unload enterprise management burden
Yankee Group - October 2007
A mainstream hypervisor will suffer serious vulnerability before the end of 2008
Gartner - September 2007
9 of 10 enterprises will have virtualization by 2007
Yankee Group - August 2007
Physical servers growth near zero within 2012
Bernstein - August 2007
Over 50% physical servers will be virtualized in 2011
IDC - July 2007
Virtualization services market to reach $11.7 billion by 2011
IDC - July 2007
Microsoft will not impact the virtualization market until 2010
Forrester - July 2007
Server market to hardly grow over 2% annually through 2011 because of virtualization
IDC - July 2007
25% of enterprise data center servers to be virtual by 2010
Intel - July 2007
A Microsoft hypervisor for Vista expected in mid-2009
Gartner - July 2007
Virtualization will be part of nearly every aspect of IT by 2015
Gartner - May 2007
3 million virtual machines expected in 2009
Gartner - May 2007
Virtualization and multicore will cost $2.4 billion in customer spending between 2006 and 2010
IDC - March 2007
Automation to play a strong role in managing virtualization resources by next 18 months
IDC - January 2007

Virtualization Industry Predictions 2006

OS Virtualization to become mainstream by 2010
Gartner - December 2006
Virtualization 2.0 (continuity, DR, HA) to emerge in 2007
IDC - December 2006
New licensing models around virtualization to be launched by the end of 2008
Forrester - October 2006
Virtualization market to grow to $15 billion worldwide by 2009
IDC - October 2006
Brazil to widely adopt virtualization in 2007
Gartner - August 2006
VMware to maintain 55% market share over next 12-15 months
Yankee Group - July 2006
VMware to change its pricing model by the end of 2006
Gartner - June 2006
IT consolidation market to grow 6.5% from 2004 to 2009, from $18.1 billion to $24.7 billion
IDC - June 2006

Virtualization Industry Predictions 2005

Virtualization Industry Predictions 2004

Virtualization Industry Predictions 2003

Server virtualization will take mainframe-like workload consolidation through 2008
Gartner - December 2003

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