Peter Dinham
Sunday, 17 May 2009 16:05
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Adoption of virtualization technology in the European market has been on the rise, with an increase of 26.6 percent of server systems shipped with a virtualization platform on top last year compared with 2007.
IDC says the adoption of virtualization in
Europe has confirmed that the technology is significantly impacting the
server market, and “even more so the way datacentres are and will be
built and managed.”
According to IDC the number of server systems shipped with a
virtualization platform reached 358,000 units in 2008 and, it says,
"the accelerated adoption on the x86 side of the server market is
making virtualization a crucial factor, changing the approach of
suppliers and the deployment habits of customers throughout Europe."
Giorgio Nebuloni, research analyst with IDC European systems and
infrastructure solutions, says that in 2008, approximately 18.3% of all
servers shipped in Western Europe were virtualized, against 14.6% in
2007, and he expected the percentage to grow to almost 21% in 2010.
“More importantly, last year, and for the first time ever, the number
of virtual machine (VM) shipments exceeded the number of physical
servers shipped, topping 2 million units."
Nebuloni says the drop in hardware spending will lead to a break point
in 2009, as VM shipments will be more than 10% higher than physical
server shipments.
“In 2013, the ratio between virtual and physical server shipments will
be 3:2. In parallel, the number of logical machines (physical and
virtual) shipped is expected to grow strongly,” says Nebuloni, and he
projected shipments would increase by 15.7% through 2013.
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