6 Hot Technologies For 2006: Virtualization

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Friday, 13 January 2006 by Michel Roth

IDC describes the shift to x86-based server virtualization as well underway and expects widespread adoption to take place during the next couple of years, without "a five- to 10-year gradual market shift as in other technology areas." Companies lacking a virtualization strategy for low-end systems will pay more in the long run, in hardware costs and management headaches, analysts say.

Gartner, for example, estimates that most x86-based servers running a single application - the traditional deployment for these low-end boxes - operate at about a 10% average utilization rate. Using virtualization to consolidate workloads into a single box should increase utilization significantly.

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