Virtualisation Software Market Size and Share Outlook - Forecast Trends and Growth Analysis Report (2025-2034)

The global virtualisation software market is likely to grow at a CAGR of nearly 20.00% in the forecast period of 2025-2034. Some of the market drivers include the increased demand for HCI server virtualisation, the advantages of desktop virtualisation, and the multiple advantages of SDS.

Market Segmentation

Virtualisation is a process of creation of IT resources like desktops, servers, operating system (OS), storage, or networks which are traditionally hardware based on software or virtual representation. The use of virtualisation technology helps end-users to reduce IT costs and to increase equipment efficiency.

Based on the platform, the virtualisation software market can be divided into:

• PC Terminal
• Mobile Terminal

The virtualisation software market can be broadly categorised based on its applications into:

• OS Virtualisation
• Application Virtualisation
• Network Virtualisation
• Hardware Virtualisation
• Storage Virtualisation
• Others

The report looks into the regional virtualisation software markets like:

• North America
• Europe
• Asia-Pacific
• Latin America
• Middle East and Africa

Market Analysis

The various advantages of VCPE,i.e., virtual customer premises equipment solutions, have increased the popularity of network virtualisation function (NFV) among network services providers. NFV-supplied vCPE solutions help end-users to reduce total equipment and maintenance costs by lowering the number of equipment to consumers and removing the need to fix complex proprietary solutions. VCPE solutions also provide more flexibility in deploying customer’s virtualized network services. The forthcoming launch of 5G network services will also increase demand from the telecom service providers for vCPE solutions. One of the trends which will have positive effects on the growth of the virtualisation software market will be the growing adoption of vCPE solutions by service providers. The network virtualisation segment accounts for the largest market share of virtualisation software. Network function virtualisation (NFV) provides various benefits such as reduced operational costs, easy scalability as well as simplified administration. Such benefits are likely to fuel organizations’ appetite for network virtualisation technologies in the next few years.

Maintaining software licenses in a virtual environment is a challenge that might hinder the industry growth. The growing popularity of virtualisation software has led providers to increase licensing costs, leading to high device installation costs.

Competitive Landscape

The report presents a detailed analysis of the following key players in the global virtualisation software market, looking into their capacity, market shares, and latest developments like capacity expansions, plant turnarounds, and mergers and acquisitions:

• VMware, Inc.
• Citrix Systems, Inc.
• Oracle Corporation
• Microsoft Corporation
• Red Hat, Inc.
• Google LLC.
• Amazon Web Services, Inc.
• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
• Others

The report gives an in-depth insight into the virtualisation software market by providing a SWOT analysis as well as an analysis of Porter’s Five Forces model.