In 1999 and the early 2000s, the only real choice for virtualization was VMware Workstation during . Fast forward to today, the demand for virtualization has exploded with business users clamoring to shrink their datacenter footprint.
Major players today includes VMWare and with Microsoft and Citrix Xen Souce with VMWare still being the primary VM solution provider and numerous competitors entering the market to get a foothold in the virtualization market.
YankeeGroup has performed a survey for 2008-2009 and have stated that 75% of the surveyed affirmed that they will deploy Virtualization solutions for their datacenters, with the driving factor being that of Disaster Recovery, License and Server consolidation.
Desktop virtualization has a more interesting slant, according to the report, 23% of the surveyed reported of using MacOS as a host platform to run virtualized Windows XP/Vista.
Source from: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/yankee-group-report-validates-virtualization/story.aspx?guid=%7B8961E254-B7CD-4565-8676-DFBF9A55EB67%7D&dist=hppr
2 comments:
very nice work, i've read your blog is a bit short, it must be young.
good luck in this biiiiig world that is virtualization.
thanks :)
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