Europe, Middle East and Africa server virtualization market in 2013: facts, figures and trends.

Our unique experience of this industry (server virtualization), increasingly allows us to better understand and analyze this growing market. Despite certain reluctances or obstacles, when it comes to confidence, cost and transparency, Connectikpeople.co is particularly excited to observe that, smaller businesses are embracing this technology. Henceforth, this reflects growing maturity in virtualization adoption, with the aim to consolidate the infrastructure by using fewer servers to deploy more virtual machines (VMs), and exploit existing hardware capacities to a greater extent. Thanks to Active Digital.

In concordance with our global commitment, Connectikpeople.co has captured the recent IDC's EMEAQuarterly Server Virtualization Tracker.

With this index, we can observe that, 33.0% of all new servers shipped in EMEA in the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13) were virtualized (about 200,300 server units were virtualized at the point of initial shipment in 4Q13). Physical server shipments were flat this quarter, showing only a 0.3% decline year-over-year, totaling 606,400 units.

 According to the same study:

·        Virtualization licenses distributed this quarter grew year-over-year by 12.0% to

282,300,

·        EMEA virtualization software revenue increased even more significantly by 14.2% to $456.3 million,

·        Paid virtualization software now running on 83.0% of all new server hardware shipments virtualized in 4Q13 compared to 82.4% recorded in 4Q12.

However, for the full 2013, 2.2 million physical servers were shipped in EMEA, representing an annual decline of 2.7%. 717,000 virtualized servers and 1.0 million virtualization software licenses were shipped. +9.6% and 13.5%, respectively. Virtualization software revenue reached $1.6 billion. + 14.6% on the previous year.

If, Western Europe continues to lead the way in terms of wider adoption of server virtualization technology, with 33.8% of new servers shipped in 4Q13 virtualized compared to 31.1% a year ago, it is also clear that, despite the 3.3% contraction in server shipments in 4Q13 compared with 4Q12, the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa witnessed double-digit growth of 10.3% in virtual server unit shipments, year over year.