Abstract
This IDC report examines how we believe the virtualization market will evolve going forward.
"Virtualization is moving beyond being a simple tool for server consolidation." Said John Humphreys, VP of Enterprise Virtualization Software research, "Increasingly IDC has seen customers leveraging the encapsulation benefits for hosting desktops in the data center and using the mobility benefits to support business continuity projects for the rest of the IT infrastructure".
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Situation Overview
- Drivers of Virtualization 1.0
- Future Outlook
- The Future of Virtualization: Some Forks in the Road
- Figure: Beyond Server Consolidation
- The Other Fork: Virtual Machine Mobility
- Business Continuity: Driving Interest
- Figure: Business Continuity: Leveraging Virtual Machine Files
- Figure: A Variety of Drivers: Business Continuity by Markets and Company Size
- Beyond DR: High Availability for the Masses
- Figure: Challenges to Clustering: Ease of Use
- Figure: Cost of Downtime, 2002-2011
- VM Mobility: Live Migration
- Figure: Future Use Cases of Live Migration
- Server Virtualization and the Impact on SOA
- Figure: Policy-Based Management of Services Via Virtualization
- The Other Fork: Virtual Machine Mobility
- Essential Guidance
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
