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Businesses that install virtualisation software do so because it helps to make significant savings across operations, one specialist has suggested.

Writing for Forbes, industry commentator Dan Woods stated that the high adoption rate of such technology is largely down to cost-cutting achieved through reducing hardware requirements. 

He remarked: "Today’s adoption of virtualisation is driven primarily by the desire to cut costs by consolidating servers and to speed provisioning of systems needed for development and business purposes."

Mr Woods went on to say that IT analysts predict 14 per cent of servers are currently virtualised, while approximately two per cent exist in the cloud.

One area still needing attention is the provision and management of applications, he added, as once this is perfected virtualisation will achieve its "full potential".

Former editor-in-chief of Network Computing David Strom recently addressed the issue in an article for Virtualisation Review, stating that VMware and Citrix will be improving application functions for their products throughout 2010.

Posted by Jamie Rees