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Chris Ingle
Associate Vice President, Consulting, SIS Group Michelle Bailey Photo
Michelle Bailey
Research Vice President, Enterprise Platforms and Datacenter Trends Jean S. Bozman Photo
Jean S. Bozman
Research Vice President, Enterprise Servers Lucinda Borovick Photo
Lucinda Borovick
Program Vice President, Enterprise and Datacenter Networks Hiroshi Shibutani Photo
Hiroshi Shibutani
Senior Market Analyst, PC, Mobile & Client Solution, IDC Japan Christian A. Christiansen Photo
Christian A. Christiansen
Program Vice President, Security Products and Services Matthew Eastwood Photo
Matthew Eastwood
Group Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Platforms Romain Fouchereau Photo
Romain Fouchereau
Research Analyst, European Enterprise Server Solutions — Security Mitsuhiro Iriya Photo
Mitsuhiro Iriya
Senior Market Analyst, Software & Security, IDC Japan Bob O
Bob O'Donnell
Program VP, Clients and Displays Richard L. Villars Photo
Richard L. Villars
Vice President, Information & Cloud Satoshi Fukutomi Photo
Satoshi Fukutomi
Research Manager, Server, IDC Japan Nathaniel Martinez Photo
Nathaniel Martinez
Program Director, European Enterprise Servers Gary Chen Photo
Gary Chen
Research Manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software Varun Srikumar Photo
Varun Srikumar
Senior Consultant, European Systems and Infrastructure Group Mary Johnston Turner Photo
Mary Johnston Turner
Research Vice President, Enterprise System Management Software Roman Maceska Photo
Roman Maceska
Associate Vice President, Research, Systems and Infrastructure Solutions, IDC CEMA Al Gillen Photo
Al Gillen
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Cynthia Ho
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Giorgio Nebuloni
Senior Research Analyst, European Enterprise Server Group, IDC EMEA

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ONGOING ANALYSIS

The days of virtualization being used only as a tactical tool to drive consolidation and higher system utilization are quickly ending. The use of virtualization has matured from simple partitioning and encapsulation to leveraging the mobility of virtual machines to improve management and operations of IT environments. Virtualization 2.0 includes a host of new use cases that range from high availability and disaster recovery to hosted clients and true utility computing. To view recently published virtualization research, please click here.