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Hype Cycle for Virtualization, 2009
21 July 2009
 
Brian Gammage   Philip Dawson   John R. Phelps   Ronni J. Colville   Donna Scott   Mark A. Margevicius   Monica Basso   Cameron Haight   David Williams   Andrew Butler   Terrence Cosgrove   Mark Fabbi   Jeffrey Hewitt   Stephen Kleynhans   Neil MacDonald   Dave Russell   Milind Govekar   Rakesh Kumar   Stewart Buchanan   Robert E. Passmore   Barry Runyon   Thomas J. Bittman   Naveen Mishra   Claudio Da Rold   Frank Ridder  

Virtualization changes the way enterprises package and deliver computing. It is disruptive to IT users and providers, leading to significant levels of hype. However, it can improve utilization of resources, and is shifting toward greater agility, provisioning, deployment and (ultimately) sourcing.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 What You Need to Know
    
 The Hype Cycle
    
 The Priority Matrix
    
 On the Rise

    
 Work Space Virtualization
    
 Virtual Server Provisioning and Configuration Management
    
 Server-Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
    
 Virtual Server Process Automation
    
 Virtual Server Resource Planning
    
 Persistent Personalization
    
 V2P Server Management
    
 Smartphone Hypervisors
    
 Introspection
    
 Trusted Hypervisors
    
 Virtual Switch
    
 VM Energy Management Tools
    
 PC Hypervisors
    
 Processor Emulation
    
 At the Peak

    
 Virtual Machine Recovery
    
 VM Software Appliances
    
 Open-Source Virtualization Platforms
    
 P2V Server Management
    
 PC Virtual Software Appliances
    
 Virtual I/O
    
 Unix Systems Live Migration
    
 Hosted Virtual Desktops
    
 Virtualization Software Licensing
    
 Hardware-Assisted Virtualization
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

    
 PC Application Virtualization
    
 x86 Live Migration
    
 x86 Server Virtualization
    
 Virtualization Security
    
 Hosted PC Virtualization Software
    
 Switch-Based Storage Virtualization
    
 Server Virtual I/O
    
 Shared OS Virtualization (Nonmainframe)
    
 Server Virtualization
    
 IT Infrastructure Utility (Virtualized)
    
 Heterogeneous Storage Virtualization
    
 x86 Server Hypervisor
    
 Climbing the Slope

    
 Virtualization
    
 Entering the Plateau

    
 Hardware Partitioning
    
 Appendixes

    
 Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Hype Cycle Phases
 

Table 2.  
 Benefit Ratings
 

Table 3.  
 Maturity Levels
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Virtualization, 2009
 

Figure 2. 
 Priority Matrix for Virtualization, 2009
 



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