This brief highlights the main trends that Datamonitor anticipates in the virtualization market in 2009.

Report Highlights
Virtualization can offer many business benefits, which include more efficient dynamic provisioning, high levels of availability, resilience and business continuity, all while making effective use of IT resources, once these resources are decoupled (to a certain degree) from the constraints of physical characteristics.

The cost reductions and environmental benefits derived from managing power requirements for a desktop infrastructure are less pronounced than those in a data center environment. Nevertheless, desktop virtualization technologies could play a valuable role in green IT strategies, especially in large enterprises.

Datamonitor's view is that the market for adjacent solutions will be the most innovative and, potentially, lucrative in the near future. In terms of specific issues that these add-ons address, the most likely areas of growth are VM management and monitoring, security and compliance, as well as backup and recovery.
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