An article from Yahoo News shows a new trend in virtual dedicated servers vs. traditional dedicated servers.

New numbers from Gartner show that computer server sales slowed in the third quarter, a trend the research company attributes to virtualization.

Gartner’s latest report on servers, released Tuesday, shows that worldwide sales grew by 4.4 percent, based on revenue, to just over US$13 billion, and 9.1 percent by unit volume, to 2 billion servers. In the second quarter, sales rose 2.5 percent by revenue and 12.8 percent by unit volume.

“We have seen double-digit growth in the past,” said Jeff Hewitt, research director for Gartner. “Server sales are still growing, but because of virtualization, customers don’t have to buy as many servers.”

Virtualization makes it possible to run more programs on one physical server, using more of its capacity and making it possible for a data center to handle more work with fewer servers.

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Full Article for Yahoo News: Virtualization takes toll on physical server sales – Yahoo! News

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