Virtualization and the Server Market
Jennifer LeClaire of NewsFactor looks at the effects of virtualization on the worldwide server market and writes:
“ IDC's new server market report, titled "Virtualization and Multicore Innovations Disrupt the Worldwide Server Market," indicates that multicore and virtualization will cost the x86 market more than 4.5 million shipments and $2.4 billion in customer spending between 2006 and 2010. Overall, x86 shipments that were once projected to increase 61 percent by 2010 are now facing just 39 percent growth during that same period.”
Like the article points out, Virtualization is stil of importance in development and QA environments.
I would like to add one more point that Virtualization is going to be mostly useful for blueshift organizations, and not for redshift organizations that must scale up.
“ IDC's new server market report, titled "Virtualization and Multicore Innovations Disrupt the Worldwide Server Market," indicates that multicore and virtualization will cost the x86 market more than 4.5 million shipments and $2.4 billion in customer spending between 2006 and 2010. Overall, x86 shipments that were once projected to increase 61 percent by 2010 are now facing just 39 percent growth during that same period.”
Like the article points out, Virtualization is stil of importance in development and QA environments.
I would like to add one more point that Virtualization is going to be mostly useful for blueshift organizations, and not for redshift organizations that must scale up.
Labels: redshift, virtualization, x86
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