The server virtualization market continues to shift towards the use of paid hypervisors

IDC also adds that 16.5% of all new servers shipped in the second quarter of 2009 were virtualized, an increase from 14.5% in second quarter of 2008. However, actual shipments decreased 21% year over year to 246,000 physical servers in 2Q09.

Even more interestingly, IDC reports the OEMs market share in the virtualization industry:

1. HP - 36% (shipments declined 18% year over year in 2Q09 but grew 1% sequentially)
2. Dell - Not Disclosed (market share growth equal to 9% over first quarter 2009)
3. IBM - 15%

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