IDC updates server virtualization market numbers: “Virtualize first” is here

The other day the folks at IDC published their worldwide quarterly server virtualization tracker report. You can see the news release here. Some of the main takeaways are: 18% of all new servers shipped in Q4’09 were virtualized, up 3% year over year Sales of virtualized servers declined 14% for 2009 Virtualization licenses declined 7% for 2009, but were up