Virtualization Market Footprint and Shares

Hardware Virtualization Market Footprint in 2010, according to Gartner:

  • 10.8M virtual machines
  • 23% of installed applications run in a virtual machine

Source: eG Innovations

Hardware Virtualization Market Footprint in at 4Q2009, according to IDC:

  • $447M worldwide virtualization software revenue
  • 38% of all virtualization hosts shipments led by HP, followed by Dell (28%) and IBM (15%)
  • 19% YOY licensing revenue growth for VMware. Microsoft growth 215% YOY. Citrix growth 290% YOY. 

Source: IDC

Hardware Virtualization Market Share in 2010, according to Gartner:

  • VMware - 84%
  • Microsoft - 11%
  • Citrix - 4%

Source: eG Innovations