Quoting from ITPro:

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At a VMware event in London IDC analyst Chris Ingles said that virtualisation is increasingly being used for core business processes.

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Ingles said he expects the number of physical servers which are virtualised to jump from seven per cent this year to 50 per cent in 2011. “That may be a little bit conservative,” he said…

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This month IDC also predicted that physical server market will hardly grow over 2% annually through 2011 because of virtualization and that virtualization services market will reach $11.7 billion by 2011.

The virtualization.info Virtualization Industry Predictions has been updated accordingly.