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Adoption of server virtualization has continued at a rapid pace in 2006: Today, 40% of North American enterprises surveyed by Forrester say they have already implemented server virtualization. Many firms attribute their adoption of virtualization to server consolidation, but an equivalent number are using the technology to make their server environments more flexible and agile. As a result of this rapid adoption, Forrester believes that early challenges with obtaining software vendor support for virtualization platforms and friendly software licensing terms will rapidly dissipate. As virtualization gets baked into most server hardware in 2007-2008 and customer pressure mounts, software vendors will have no choice but to embrace the technology. But firms seeking to take full advantage of server virtualization will eventually have to make changes to IT practices.

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