Navtej Kohli’s forecast of Virtualization services market in next five years

Virtualization services are witnessing a boom as more and more large
enterprises are holding on to it. Taking into account the prevailing
trends, virtualization services are anticipated to grow by more than
40% around the x86, per annum.


The IDC report forecasts that the virtualization services market will
levitate from its current annual level of $5.5 billion to a hefty $11.7
billion by 2011.


Also, the supply of qualified consultants for handling work is falling
short as the market is growing rapidly. Matt Healy IDC analyst said
“The growth of [virtualization] services at this point is a
resource-constrained equation – not a demand-constrained equation.”


“You don’t necessarily have all of the people you need to be able to do
these things. But big organizations will be able to get them quickly,
and we will not stay in this state for very long,” he further stated.


According to the IDC report the Global virtualization services market is tend to grow in this way:


1. All key players in the consulting market will grab the big slices of
this lucrative pie. As big projects require multitude of qualified
consultants, because of several intricacies in the virtualization
consulting, only a handful of small-level consulting firms have
resources to manage complex virtualization consulting jobs.


2. Virtualization growth in the enterprise will happen in three phases:

• Phase I: It includes pre sales consulting. Here
sales person make contact with prospective companies, pitching them
about the efficiency and cost benefits of virtualization.

• Phase II: After Pre-sales, this is the next step.
Most enterprises today are undergoing this phase. Every enterprise must
ensure that the in-house IT workforce and the system admins understand
how virtualization integrates into their data center – and companies
know they have to pay for this expertise.

• Phase III: It’s still in the making. It will happen
when virtualization is no longer its own market. Clients won't be
soliciting requests for proposals for virtualization help, but instead
will assume any large consulting firm handles it as a matter of course.


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