Check out this great article from Robyn Weisman and Processor.com magazine. I had the pleasure of speaking with Robyn recently, and we had a wonderful conversation around the future of server virtualization.  In the article, Robyn discusses the results from an AFCOM survey (www.afcom.com) showing that almost 73% of all data centers have implemented some form of server virtualization.  She and I also talked about the concept of VM Stall and what's holding organizations back from virtualizing more of their environments.

Robyn writes:

David Marshall, founder of VMblog.com, author of “VMware ESX Essentials in the Virtual Data Center,” and technical editor of “Virtualization for Dummies,” says that for the most part, organizations using server virtualization in their data centers are virtualizing only about 20 to 30% of their environments. “That is about the average rate at which organizations hit the ceiling as far as how much of their environment is virtualized, usually because they stop at the low-hanging fruit and don’t [virtualize] their mission-critical applications,” Marshall says.

Marshall calls this 20 to 30% ceiling “VM stall.” He says that most organizations moving toward server virtualization have started by virtualizing their test dev environments, Web servers, simple app servers, and some infrastructure-related items, such as Microsoft Active Directory. “They’re consolidating, trying to shrink power [usage] and data center real estate footprint,” he says, labeling this the “first level of maturity.”

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Read the entire article from Processor.com here.