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Virtualization Industry Quarterly Survey

V-index is an online virtualization industry study performed by Vanson Bourne, an independent market research company. It is based on a survey of at least 500 enterprises across the US, UK, France and Germany and is designed to measure 3 parameters – virtualization rate, consolidation ratio and primary hypervisor in use.

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V-index Q3 2011

 
 
 

Virtualization
penetration rate

Percentage of virtualized servers
38.9%
 
 
 
 
 
 

Consolidation
ratio

Average number of virtual servers
per host
5:1
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hypervisor
in use

Primary hypervisor in use
Server VDI
VMware 67.6% 54.2%
Hyper-V 16.4% 20.3%
Citrix 14.4% 24.9%
 
 
 

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NEW REPORT! Virtualization Data Protection 2011

  • 94% of CIOs say virtualization can transform data protection strategies
  • Top three barriers preventing increased server replication include cost of hardware (given by 60% of respondents), cost of replication software (52%) and complexity (42%)
  • For enterprises that deploy server replication, in the event of outages CIOs estimate cost savings on average of $417,391 per hour
  • 87% of CIOs say that recovery times from large-scale disasters are growing as the number of business critical servers within the enterprise increases

OTHER VIEW: Gartner Data on Virtualization Industry

On this website we will also publish other industry views to provide an ongoing snapshot of virtualization penetration within the enterprise, consolidation ratios, use of different hypervisors and possible barriers to further adoption.

 
 
 
Figure 1. Percentage of x86-Architecture Workloads Running in VMs
Percentage of x86-Architecture Workloads Running in VMs
Source:     Gartner, March 2011
Research: Virtual Machines Will Slow in the Enterprise, Grow in the Cloud
 
 
 
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