As per the initiative to help businesses move from the client server era to mobile Cloud era of computing, VMware has launched the Virtualization 2020 campaign. As a first step, VMware sponsored the IDC Server Economies Index study to demonstrate the potential of virtualization and validate the impact of server virtualization in Asia-Pacific.
Titled Vision 2020, the study revealed that the economic impact of server virtualization is estimated to reach US$3.89 billion in India by 2020. The report provides an analysis over the past 10 years and looks forward through 2020.
T Srinivasan, MD, VMware India & SAARC said, Indian organizations have just begun laying the foundation of their datacenter transformation with virtualization. We’re excited and look forward to the huge opportunity that lies ahead as more and more organizations begin to benefit from our technologies on their journey to the Cloud. The IDC study provides some substantial estimates on the impact our technologies are creating in India.
The IDC Server Economies Index points toward the value of increasing consolidation and the cost avoidance that virtualization provides to businesses in India. With datacenters at the heart of IT transformation, we expect the adoption of virtualization to accelerate over the next few years as organizations increasingly gain confidence and benefit from the technology,” said Venu Reddy, Research Director, IDC India.
The IDC study estimates the impact of virtualization to reach US$98 billion across eight countries in Asia Pacific by 2020. This includes $25.6 billion in costs that have been avoided to date, which is set to increase by an additional US$72.7 billion by 2020.
