Worldwide server virtualisation adoption is entering the mainstream, says Riedwaan Bassadien, core infrastructure product manager for Microsoft. “Two out of 10 servers shipped into the local market end up as a virtual server host,” he says.
In the curve of product adoption, Bassadien says the early adopters account for about 13.3% of adopters. Next is the early majority, with 49.9% of users. Late adopters count for 32.1% and laggards for 4.9%.
Server virtualisation adoption has exited the early adopters phase and is at the beginning of the early majority phase, when the product begins to enter the mainstream, and users tend to be more cost sensitive.
Bassadien discussed the virtualisation market in SA at the ITWeb Virtualisation and Cloud Computing conference, being held in Bryanston, this week. He cited research that says VMWare has the majority of market share, with 81%. Next is Microsoft with 15% and others with 4%.
In terms of new shipments to the South African virtualisation market, VMWare still holds the lion's share, with over 60%. Microsoft comes in second, with over 20%. Other companies such as HP, IBM and Sun Microsystems are all under 10%.
SA's rate of virtualisation adoption is increasing, currently sitting at over 15%. However, the country still lags behind countries like Spain, the US and Turkey.
There is also huge growth in the SME market for virtualisation, said Bassadien. "The SME market is 60% of all virtualised shipments."
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