Clouds and Virtual Infrastructures - DataCore Solution Provider the Mirazon Group Predicts Virtualization in 2010

David Marshall from Infoworld/VMblog has posted interviews on 2010 predictions.
This is a post from DataCore solution provider Mirazon Group.
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Desktop and Storage Virtualization are the Next "Big Wave"
http://vmblog.com/archive/2009/12/31/desktop-and-storage-virtualization-are-the-next-big-wave.aspx

Clouds and Virtual Infrastructures

Craig Stein - Systems Architect for The Mirazon Group

Clouds and Virtual Infrastructures (not just virtual servers) that encompass virtual storage and VDI are the major opportunities for 2010:

1. The Cloud Computing concept will become more of a reality as service providers offer easy ways for customers to embrace the portability of their virtual workloads to move their VMs and storage from private clouds to hosted cloud infrastructures and back as needed.

2. Greater adoption of Microsoft Hyper-V R2 in both SMB and Enterprise markets for both development and production environments.

3. As organizations embrace Hyper-V we expect to see more products that support the backup and management of vSphere/ESX to also support the Hyper-V platform.

4. As IT budgets are cut, we expect to see a greater trend towards Storage Virtualization that allows commoditization of storage and a heterogeneous vendor approach - instead of a single vendor solution that locks the customer into their initial storage vendor.

5. We expect the VDI market will slowly yield solutions with lower CAPEX cost of Virtual Desktops. VDI is still very expensive from the Software/Thin Client/Storage (SAN) perspective. The ROI for VDI is currently realized through reduced OPEX costs. OPEX costs will also continue to improve as better management tools appear and the VDI software matures.

6. More and more organizations will realize the value of Virtualization as it relates to Disaster Recovery. Even small businesses are embracing Virtualization as the technology becomes more mainstream - simply for the recoverability.

7. In 2010, we expect the trend to continue where Application Vendors embrace virtualization of all workloads, including I/O intensive servers running SQL, Oracle, Exchange as the technology is understood, proven and trusted by the ISVs.

8. For Telephone/Communication systems, as SIP Trunks become more popular in replacing proprietary T1/E1 cards, we expect to see virtualization of voice platforms for increased uptime and DR that virtualization affords.