Virtualisation to 'significantly change' infrastructure and operations
A new report from Gartner has concluded that virtualisation will completely change the way in which IT is planned, purchased, deployed and
managed over the next five years.
The analyst said that virtualisation will be the highest-impact influence on infrastructure and operations through to 2012, noting that it will create a new wave of competition among infrastructure vendors.
Philip Dawson, vice president at Gartner, said virtualisation is not a new concept and that storage and networking had both already been virtualised.
"However, as both server and PC virtualisation become more pervasive, traditional IT infrastructure orthodoxy is being challenged and is changing the way business works with IT," he added.
According to Gartner, the leading force of this change is server virtualisation, which promises the possibility of unlocking the full potential of existing architecture servers. The firm estimates that
virtualisation reduced the x86 server market by four per cent in 2006.
Gartner claims to be the "indispensable partner" of some 60,000 clients across 10,000 organisations.
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