Virtualization and the Economy

The conventional wisdom about the impact of the economy on virtualization is that companies will being looking to cut costs and therefore will turn to server virtualization because of an immediate and straighforward ROI hit. But not so fast says analyst Rachel Chalmers of the 451 Group. In a recent report, Chalmers points out that a lot of the low hanging fruit has already been picked off at least in terms of the Fortune 500. Going downstream to the SMB level, the ROI won’t be quite as easy to realize.
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Overall, however, analysts like Pund-It’s Charles King believe that “sales of IT solutions which enhance the performance of existing tech assets…will remain relatively brisk.” He includes virtualization (presumably all forms) and data de-duplication in this category.

So what about other types of virtualization?

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BY Tom Valovic
Source：ViRTUALiZATiON REVIEW

Tom is executive editor of Virtualization Review. He can be reached at tvalovic@1105media.com.