Everyone is talking about Virtualization as the way to consolidate and reduce power and cooling costs. However, IDC believes the market is on the cusp of a host of new use cases for virtualization that will help customer create much more agile "Service Oriented" infrastructures (SOI). This uses cases have the potential to explode the demand for virtualization software, create new market opportunities for managing virtual machines and potentially disrupt incumbent vendors is newly competitive markets. This briefing will clearly identify the opportunities and challenges facing virtualization as it moves into the mainstream market and will answer those nagging questions such as:

• What are the new use cases for the technology?
• Where are the opportunities for virtualization tools?
• How is virtualization impacts adjacent markets such as clients or storage?
• What markets is virtualization software attempting to disrupt?