Worldwide Storage Consulting and Integration Services 2009-2013 Forecast and Analysis: Opportunities Due to Server Virtualization

This IDC study presents in-depth analysis of primary customer research data analyzing six common server virtualization use cases to understand enterprise demand for storage services due to server virtualization. Virtualization has become a very important part of the enterprise IT strategy for most enterprises. Despite the current economic downturn, enterprises are still investing in deploying virtualization because of the technology's ability to decrease hardware spending. Additionally, the deployments of virtualization are becoming greater in scale and complexity. As a result, enterprises are finding that they need to address concerns associated with their storage environment at the time of deploying server virtualization.

"During a server virtualization project, adjacent technologies, such as storage, need to be addressed," said Matt Healey, research manager, Software and Hardware Support Services.