Server virtualization becomes the norm

January 25th, 2007

The figures are surprisingly high. From October 2006: “Server virtualization no longer has the same cache it did a year or two ago. And the reason is simple: Now that everybody is starting to do it, there is nothing to boast about. According to IDC, more than three-quarters of companies with 500 or more employees use virtual servers, and 45 percent of all new servers purchased this year will be virtualized.” And VMware leads. Revenues are up 6X in 3 years, and “more than 20,000 companies now [use] VMware technology, including 99 of the Fortune 100 companies.”

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