| Yankee Group Survey: Server Virtualization Is Mainstream |
| Monday, 17 July 2006 by Michel Roth | |||
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Yankee has put together a two-part report based on the survey results from 1,700 MIS managers around the world, in various industries, and across a spectrum of company sizes. According to that survey, only 14 percent of the companies polled have not yet chosen a server virtualization vendor for at least one of their platforms (presumably, many companies have more than one virtualization approach, since no virtualization hypervisor yet spans all platforms). Of these, and only 4 percent have no plans to do so. About 62 percent of those polled say that they have server virtualization hypervisors in place or are in the process of migrating to one or from one to another. That leaves 24 percent of respondents who have chosen a server virtualization vendor, but who have not yet picked the products they will use, since many vendors offer more than one approach. As you might expect, VMware, which has done more than any other vendor to commercialize the X86 and X64 server platforms to date, is in use at 55 percent of those polled by Yankee. About 45 percent of the companies polled said that they are using VMware's ESX Server hypervisor, which runs on bare metal and which is the company's top-end product, while 10 percent said they were using the GSX Server hypervisor, which runs inside a Linux or Windows operating system. Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 has a 29 percent share of the base, and various implementations of the Xen open source hypervisor from XenSource has a tiny slice of the market--so far, at least. XenSource and its operating system partners plan on offering commercialized products and support for the Xen hypervisor later this year. The remainder of companies were presumably using the hypervisors that have shipped in Unix and proprietary environments for the past couple of years. Read on at ITJungle.com
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