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Virtualization Market in India
Frost & Sullivan, Nov 2009, Pages: 67
This Frost & Sullivan research service titled Virtualization Market in India provides an in-depth analysis of market drivers and restraints, industry structure, and competitive environment, besides dealing with the challenges and issues faced by market participants. In this research, Frost & Sullivan's expert analysts thoroughly examine the following sectors: server, desktop, operating system (OS), application, network, virtualization, and storage.
Market Overview
Explosive Data Growth and Disaster Recovery Requirements Trigger Growth in the Virtualization Market in India
Although the overall market for virtualization in India is still nascent, the technology is emerging as one of the major trends impacting the end-to-end infrastructure of enterprises. With controlled capital expenditure being witnessed across the board and virtualization solutions becoming increasingly affordable, the technology is set to become mainstream in the country. Moreover, organizations are becoming increasingly aware of their environmental footprint and therefore, they are deploying server virtualization as a tool to reduce their power utilization and computing wastes. 'The ability to centrally manage desktop infrastructure and meet compliance and security requirements is driving the adoption of desktop virtualization solutions,' notes the analyst of this research service. 'Virtualization helps to eliminate the impact of downtime - both scheduled and unscheduled - and accelerates the process of disaster recovery.' One-to-one mapping of equipment and application is causing a lower level of utilization of the existing equipment. Virtualization helps in sharing infrastructure, thereby increasing the utilization levels of existing infrastructure. As virtualization enablers such as hypervisors are becoming increasingly commoditized, virtualization management solutions and end-to-end virtualization solutions are emerging as the primary focus areas of several virtualization vendors.
While enterprises are increasingly interested in the benefits that server virtualization solutions offer, concentrated risk, greater infrastructure complexity, and migration challenges to a virtualized environment are a few of the key restraints for the adoption of server virtualization solutions. Downtime in a physical server hosting several virtual machines could prove costly. An adequate replication and redundancy plan must be in place to overcome this risk. Virtualization requires adequate planning to reap the full benefits it has to offer. Managing physical servers is different from managing virtual servers; therefore, the skill bases of administrators would need to be rebuilt. Seamless migration from a physical system to a virtual system necessitates careful planning and the services of skilled personnel. Enterprises are encountering difficulties while transitioning from development systems to production systems, fearing a failed migration.
Trends indicate that several enterprises are opting to virtualize their existing server infrastructure, instead of procuring new physical servers. To popularize the use of virtualization further, vendors are collaborating with partners and conducting road shows to educate customers on the various virtualization solutions available and their benefits. 'The Indian market is predominantly price and value sensitive,' says the analyst. 'Despite the high awareness in the consumer segment on the benefits of virtualization, the adoption in the market has been slow so far, primarily due to overpriced solutions in the market.' As enterprises have gathered a myriad of hardware and software solutions, interoperability becomes the top selection criterion for buyers. Apart from this, software licensing costs, support costs, hardware costs, as well as costs of hardware maintenance, power, cooling, and rack space are other criteria considered by enterprises while choosing a server virtualization solution. In essence, the total cost of acquisition and ownership are examined while selecting a solution provider.
Market Sectors
Expert Frost & Sullivan analysts thoroughly examine the following market sectors in this research:
- Server virtualization
- Desktop virtualization
- Operating system (OS) virtualization
- Application virtualization
- Network virtualization
- Storage virtualization
Technologies
The following technologies are covered in this research:
- Direct attached storage
- Network attached storage
- Storage area networks
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