Cloud-Enabled Servers Will Soon Outpace Physical Servers

Cloud-Enabled Servers Will Soon Outpace Physical Servers
Modern datacenters are shifting so dramatically toward virtualization that the number of workloads running on physical servers will drop for the first time during 2016, while total workload volume increases by nearly two-thirds worldwide, according to a recent survey by Cisco Systems Inc. The number of datacenter workloads that run alone on a physical server rose 4.8 percent between 2014 and 2015, but increased just 0.2 percent during 2015. It's expected to drop by 1 percent worldwide by the end of 2019, Cisco noted.