The Future of Virtualization: Emerging trends and the evolving vendor landscape - 2009/10/01 - Business Insights

Report title: The Future of Virtualization: Emerging trends and the evolving vendor landscape

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The Future of Virtualization report examines one of the biggest trends in recent IT history: virtualization. The promise of virtualization technology â?? whether applied to the server, storage, client/desktop, application or network â?? is to increase capacity, utilize resources more effectively and reduce costs. It also fits neatly with many organizationsâ?? green IT strategies, with its promise to increase utilization of existing assets and eliminate the demand for more energy-guzzling hardware resources.Virtualization is not only a hot topic but also a rapidly evolving area of the IT sector. Despite a tough macroeconomic climate, there is evidence that organizations are willing to invest in virtualization technologies, making it of great interest to incumbent vendors and those eyeing up the future market opportunity.This report is of interest to any supplier of IT products and services, whether selling direct or through a channel of resellers. This group includes virtualization vendors, hardware vendors, software vendors, open source specialists, system management providers, service providers, data centers, internet-based businesses such as Amazon offering in-cloud applications, value-added resellers and managed network service providers.Key features of this report
- Insight into the virtualization market opportunity â?? for example, desktop and application virtualization represent the next growth opportunities, now the server and storage virtualization markets are established
- Market forecasts and cost saving breakdowns
- Analysis of the vendor landscape and exploration of the potential challenges / opportunities ahead for the main players
- Recommended vendor actions
- Case studies of virtualization in actionScope of this report
- Identify market drivers and future industry â??sweet spotsâ??
- Refine sales and marketing campaigns to educate end users about the benefits of virtualization and allay any concerns they may have with the technology
- In-depth analysis of emerging trends in the virtualization market
- Identify the main players in the virtualization market
- See evidence of virtualization in action through real-life case studies
- Identify new market opportunities (e.g. SMBs)Key market issuesVirtualization is an old technology brought into the 21st-century: Virtualization has been available on the mainframe since the 1960s. The current resurgence in virtualization is brought about by the fact that todayâ??s hardware provides significantly more horsepower than is needed by the applications that it runs, so CPU utilization rates are at an all-time low.Virtualization doesnâ??t just improve operational efficiencies: Many organizations initially adopt IT virtualization in order to save costs through server consolidation, but then realise that other benefits are possible when operating with a virtualized infrastructure, and so IT virtualization then becomes a strategic part of the overall IT plan.Desktop and application streaming will become key components in the way most IT service providers deliver virtual desktops and applications to end users. The technology is not fully mature or robust, however, and service providers and customers shouldnâ??t expect widespread use before 2010.Network virtualization: The I/O throughput of virtualized systems is one aspect of IT virtualization that will improve significantly over the next two years, as software products gain assistance from developments at the chip and server bus level.Cloud computing: Itâ??s early days for the delivery of â??Desktop as a Serviceâ?? from the public cloud, but already Tier 1 IT services vendors are anticipating interest from large enterprises and looking at ways they can integrate cloud-based services (both public and private) into their own managed services offerings.Competitive landscape: VMware is the most successful vendor in the enterprise server virtualization market today. VMware â?? like its rivals â?? is building t

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Title	Starting Page	Number of Pages
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Table of Contents The Future of Virtualization Executive summary 10 Behind the hype of virtualization 10 Emerging trends in server and storage virtualization 11 Emerging trends in client / desktop virtualization 12 Emerging trends in application virtualiza	0	1
Table of Contents	0	1
The Future of Virtualization	0	1
Executive summary 10	0	1
Behind the hype of virtualization 10	0	1
Emerging trends in server and storage virtualization 11	0	1
Emerging trends in client / desktop virtualization 12	0	1
Emerging trends in application virtualization 13	0	1
Emerging trends in network virtualization 14	0	1
Future roadmap for virtualization 15	0	1
Pitfalls to virtualization 16	0	1
Vendor landscape 17	0	1
Chapter 1 Introduction 20	0	1
What is this report about? 20	0	1
Who is this report for? 21	0	1
Chapter 2 Behind the hype of virtualization 24	0	1
Summary 24	0	1
Introduction 25	0	1
Defining virtualization 25	0	1
Why virtualization is more than a buzzword 26	0	1
The financial benefits 28	0	1
Strategic role for virtualization 30	0	1
Developments in the virtualization market 31	0	1
Storage virtualization 31	0	1
Server virtualization 31	0	1
Client/desktop virtualization 31	0	1
Application virtualization 33	0	1
Network virtualization 34	0	1
Virtualization management 34	0	1
Market outlook 35	0	1
Commoditization enters the virtualization market 36	0	1
Market challenges 38	0	1
Vendor actions 39	0	1
Chapter 3 Emerging trends in server and storage virtualization 42	0	1
Summary 42	0	1
Introduction 43	0	1
Server virtualization 43	0	1
The business case 43	0	1
How it works 44	0	1
Hypervisors 45	0	1
Hosted virtualization 46	0	1
Emerging trends in server virtualization 48	0	1
The time is ripe to move from testing to virtualization 48	0	1
Managing virtualized server environments 48	0	1
High-performance server virtualization 51	0	1
Expect more partnerships between emulation and blade centers 51	0	1
Microsoft makes its entrance 53	0	1
The future for Linux vendors 54	0	1
Storage virtualization 55	0	1
The business case 55	0	1
Emerging trends in storage virtualization 58	0	1
A maturing market 58	0	1
New business drivers 58	0	1
Demand grows for file-based virtualization 59	0	1
Server virtualization and iSCSI work hand in hand 60	0	1
Server and storage virtualization increasingly viewed as complementary technologies 61	0	1
Chapter 4 Emerging trends in client/desktop virtualization 66	0	1
Summary 66	0	1
The business case 67	0	1
Market development 69	0	1
As many as 16 million desktops could be virtualized by 2011 70	0	1
The limitations of thin clients 70	0	1
HVD 71	0	1
Limitations of HVD 72	0	1
Virtualizing the desktop and application delivery has different challenges to server and storage virtualization 73	0	1
Emerging trends in client/desktop virtualization 74	0	1
VDI now a common accepted term for centralized server-based desktop virtualization 74	0	1
Combining the benefits of server and desktop virtualization 74	0	1
The emergence of the Bring Your Own Computer model 76	0	1
Developments in storage and image optimization could increase take-up of VDI 77	0	1
Desktop as a service: an alternative to in-house VDI? 78	0	1
CIOs should investigate the new generation of desktop virtualization software tools 78	0	1
There will be no one set desktop PC model in the future 79	0	1
The limitations of VDI 80	0	1
VDI isnâ€™t necessarily suited to large-scale deployments 81	0	1
VDI is well suited to mid-market companies 82	0	1
Chapter 5 Emerging trends in application virtualization 84	0	1
Summary 84	0	1
The business case 85	0	1
Application virtualization 87	0	1
Market development 89	0	1
The benefits of application virtualization 90	0	1
Application virtualization in action: case studies 92	0	1
Flexible application delivery at Fontys University 92	0	1
Increasing processing capacity for complex applications at BNP Paribas 93	0	1
Emerging trends in application virtualization 95	0	1
Application virtualization is moving into the mainstream 95	0	1
Interest in application virtualization amongst vendors heats up 95	0	1
Combining desktop and application virtualization 96	0	1
Application virtualization inside presentation virtualization 96	0	1
The limitations of application virtualization 97	0	1
Chapter 6 Emerging trends in network virtualization 100	0	1
Summary 100	0	1
The business case 101	0	1
Virtual private networking (VPN) 101	0	1
Virtual LAN technologies 102	0	1
Network virtualization 103	0	1
Market development 105	0	1
Network virtualization in action: case studies 106	0	1
Creating a virtual network infrastructure at Zurich Airport 106	0	1
Emerging trends in network virtualization 107	0	1
Network and I/O virtualization still a nascent area of development 107	0	1
More network virtualization vendors â€˜standardizeâ€™ their offering 108	0	1
The network of the future: an integrated platform 108	0	1
Chapter 7 Future roadmap for virtualization 112	0	1
Summary 112	0	1
Introduction 113	0	1
Back-up and disaster recovery 113	0	1
Automating virtualization management 116	0	1
The SMB opportunity 119	0	1
Cloud computing 121	0	1
Cloud computing and virtualization 122	0	1
Opening the market to shared services 123	0	1
Chapter 8 Pitfalls to virtualization 126	0	1
Summary 126	0	1
Introduction 127	0	1
The pitfalls 127	0	1
Server sprawl 128	0	1
Tackling server sprawl 131	0	1
Potential conflicts from resource sharing 132	0	1
Software provisioning 133	0	1
Non-standardization of protocols, formats, and programming interfaces 133	0	1
Software licensing and auditing 134	0	1
Users test the virtualization waters 135	0	1
Security 135	0	1
Virtual security 136	0	1
Securing the virtual network 137	0	1
Securing virtual network appliances 137	0	1
New risks introduced by virtualization 138	0	1
Security steps for virtualized server environments 139 Use a bare metal hypervisor for live system deployment 139 Securing each virtual machine 139 Configuration and change control 140 Virtual machine templates 141 Access control 141 Secure idle virtual ma	0	1

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