Majority of servers 'will be virtualised by 2013'
23 Oct 2009
The proportion of servers running in virtual partitions is predicted to rise from its current level of 16 per cent to more than 50 per cent by the beginning of 2013.
Industry analyst Gartner claims that many people may perceive virtualisation of servers as being more widespread than is actually the case at present.
But, over the coming three years, uptake of server virtualisation is expected to more than triple, taking it to at least half of all running machines, with better affordability cited as one driving force behind the trend.
Tom Bittman, vice-president and distinguished analyst for Gartner, says: "For years the entry point was simply too high for small enterprises, but increased competition by server vendors has enabled smaller firms to embrace virtualisation."
He adds that virtual machines are likely to penetrate further in companies with fewer than 1,000 employees than within major corporations by the end of the year 2010.
Gartner previously suggested that "virtualisation for availability" could be an emerging trend in the years to come.
The analyst explained that this could allow temporary files to be replicated between servers and, should one fail, the redundant machine to pick up the processing for a given task.
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