Market analysts from IDC released forecasts for the development of the virtualization services market. According to IDC the market will grow to $11.7 billion in 2011. Hardware virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer), and application virtualization (SoftGrid/App-V, Citrix, VMware ThinApp) has been lead by VMware.

The producers of OS virtualization technologies like Sun, Parallels, iCore Software also increase their market share and rise and shift in virtualization recruitment trends.

An year ago in an article in CIO, the consulting firm Saugatuck Technology said that through 2013, management tools, processes, expertise, and services (not functionality) will remain the key limiting factor in user adoption of IT Virtualization. The company published report titled "The Many Faces of Virtualization: Understanding a New IT Reality".

The analytical firm predicts that by 2010, at least 30% of non-desktop IT infrastructure will be virtualized. This percent was less than 5% in 2007. Server and application virtualization lead the way.

If you don't know that name parallels, then you are not in web hosting or just missed a very important part of it. Parallels is a very popular software company, the producer of the Virtuozzo - the world's leading virtualization technology. Parallels will host one of the most important events in the virtualization world of 2009 - "Parallels Summit 2009".

The focus of the meeting!

Parallels Summit 2009 will focus on Cloud Computing and will include sessions on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Automation and the development of virtualization technologies. The key objectives of the summit is to gain insight on upcoming virtualization market trends, and to help the companies that use Parallels technologies to learn more about strategies on building a successful web enterprises.

The welcome keynote of the Parallels summit - "The Next Generation of Optimized Computing" - will be holded from Sergey Belusov, the Parallels CEO. It will be followed by a speech of Morris Miller, the founder of probably the worlds top enterprise hosting provider - Rackspace. Top executives from IBM and Intel will also speak in front of the Parallels partners.

Antonio Piraino from Tier 1 will talk about cloud computing business models. The first day of the meeting ends with a Parallels virtualization roadmap update.

On the second day Senior sales Engineers from Parallels will speak about Parallels virtualization containers best practices, which means "high availability and clustering".

Plesk 9.0

The new version of Plesk Panel, one of the most popular web hosting management software - Plesk 9.0 - and its SMB roadmap and update will be also presented during the second day of the summit.

SEO

Guillaume Bouchard of NVI will hold one of the two final sessions of the summit. It will be dedicated to search engine optimization and the way companies can build their market share on the competitive web hosting market.

The end of the year is always a good time for analysis. 2008 is a very important year for the development of web hosting industry. This year web hosting changed a lot because of the new emerging hosting markets. One of the fastest developing markets in hosting industry is VPS Hosting. We can definitely say that 2008 is the year of virtualization. See what journalists and bloggers say:

"With a little more than a week to go in 2008, I found my mind drifting to the events of this year -- at least those relevant to IT. It may seem obvious, but I think that we'll look at 2008 as the year that virtualization finally landed. After more than a decade of x86 virtualization, it's to the point now where it's not only a viable technology, but it's being adopted in every IT sector, from production to development, from small to large business", wrote Palu Venezia in an article in InfoWorld's welog titled "2008: Virtualization's big year".

According to Paul Venezia virtualization will provide the framework for the next generation of IT infrastructures. He says that 2008 was the year that became a firm conclusion, not a potential.

"Virtualization is reorganizing the IT industry. It underpins cloud computing by making it possible to separate the software from the hardware", this is the conclusion of made by the Virtualization Conference. According to conference website Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now the world's largest cloud-based virtualization system and is "literally changing the world of IT as we knew it".

According to IDC the virtualization market has been approximately $560 million in 2005. It is expected to grow to $2.7 billion in 2009. According to Gartner, virtualization will be the highest-impact trend which will change the IT infrastructure and operations through 2012.

The analysts expect data center virtualization to stay as the most important market segment, but they also say that application virtualization, storage virtualization, and virtualization for end users are growing very fast.

Virtualization and Cloud computing top the list of almost any survey made this year.

One of the events that is expected to summarize the trends in the virtualization market and to set goals for 2009 is the International Virtualization Conference & Expo.

The popular web media SYS-CON is holding it's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in London on January 26- 27, 2009. "The conference will be looking at every flavor of virtualization" as it is written on tits website.

The leaders in the industry are expected to hold keynote on server virtualization, virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure, para-virtualization, security and compliance issues, Green IT, cloud and data center file systems, distributed I/O resource management, database management in virtualized environments, secure mobile device virtualization, and resource management and load balancing issues for very large clusters of up to 100,000 nodes.