According to Standard & Poor's said that with VMWare, Citrix, and Dell's EqualLogic in the virtual world's leading software and services for virtual investment is likely to increase dramatically. According to information from market research firm IDC survey data on investment in virtualization software and services will be 6.5 billion in 2006 to grow to 15 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, the virtual technology to become a hot topic in high-tech industry is no longer felt surprise.
Virtual data centers can reduce server and with the number of IT related hardware, saving the cost of real estate and electricity. VMWare's software enables customers to significantly increase server and storage equipment and the efficient use of network resources, but also simplifies the operation of these systems in the management and operation of the load. According to Standard & Poor's equity analyst Jawahar Hingorani said virtual information lifecycle management process is a major evolution in the strengthen of complex distributed applications, and consumers created by the management of unstructured data.
According to Jawahar Hingorani said the virtual technology show they meet the business needs of environmental protection concept also reduces the required application is running the "physical" number of servers and data center footprint and energy dissipation. According to IDC, as the market matures and the penetration increase, from systems integration and support services will gradually increase the proportion of the virtual sale. VMWare's sales revenue in 2006 was 703.9 million U.S. dollars. According to Hingorani According to IDC forecasts the market share is expected that by 2010, VMWare EMC will contribute three billion U.S. dollars in sales.
Virtual technology market is ranked after VMWare Citrix Systems. Citrix Systems in October this year, about 500 million U.S. dollars to the price of bought XenSource. According to Standard & Poor's equity analyst Jim Yin expects the acquisition in 2008 and 2009, respectively, Citrix Systems to bring five million U.S. dollars and 200 million U.S. dollars in revenue.