"As the price of hardware has fallen, it has encouraged us to invest in more hardware, But the cost of managing devices is unbearable and we need something to sort it out. Virtualisation is a step towards that -- it's flexible and has an automated environment -- a primary request for a complete IT infrastructure. The challenge is in building it."
Stephen Prentice (General VP Hardware Research Gartner)



"Virtualisation will be the highest-impact trend changing infrastructure and operations through 2012, and will transform how IT is managed, what is bought, how it is deployed, how companies plan and how they are charged."
Gartner



"4 million virtual machines expected by 2009, 611 million virtualised PCs by 2011 and the IT infrastructure and operations deeply impacted by virtualisation by 2012."
Gartner - April 2008


"Virtualisation will be part of nearly every aspect of IT by 2015 and recommended IT managers query vendors now about how they will accommodate their application with the new technology.

Virtualisation will be part of nearly every aspect of IT by 2015 and recommended IT managers query vendors now about how they will accommodate their application with the new technology. Virtualisation will bring more consumer client applications into the datacenter which needs to be discussed with vendors as well."
Gartner senior analyst, Phil Sargent


"PC virtualisation will "increase rapidly" during the next three years, with the 5 million virtualized PCs in 2007 leaping to 660 million by the end of 2011. "As both server and PC virtualisation become more pervasive, traditional IT infrastructure orthodoxy is being challenged and is changing the way business works with IT."
Philip Dawson, vice president of Gartner


"More personal devices are being brought into the business space and this diversity - and the lack of security on such devices - is putting companies at risk.Technology over the next five years will allow convergence of mobile devices and tools, and virtualisation is one of the many enablers to allow this convergence."
Monica Basso, research director at Gartner