Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization (魔力象限x86服务器虚拟化)
Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization
Infrastructure
Gartner RAS Core Research Note Thomas J. Bittman, Philip Dawson, George J. Weiss, 26 May 2010, RA406042011
Server virtualization for x86 architecture servers is one of the
hottest trends in IT today, and will remain so for several years.
Competition is maturing, and the market has a number of viable
choices.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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Virtualization of x86 architecture servers has been an extremely dynamic market (and a major
trend) since VMware introduced its server products in 2001. For several years, competition
was very limited. However, since 2006 (with the first commercial versions of Xen) and 2008
(with the release of Microsoft’s Hyper-V), very viable alternative choices have emerged.
Initially used just for cost reduction, server virtualization is now also being used to speed up
operational processes and server deployment, create disaster recovery solutions where they
didn’t exist before, and improve server availability. x86 architecture server virtualization is now
considered a mainstream trend (roughly 25% of the market is penetrated), and the strategic