Analyst firm Gartner has published its 2024 Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, adding virtual-to-physical migrations — aka "devirtualization" — to its list of ideas set to take off, thanks to Broadcom's licensing changes.
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"As on-premises virtualization projects move from [enterprise license agreements] ELA and perpetual licenses to new bundled solutions, socket-to-core ratios and consumption models, costs and pricing can increase two- or threefold," Hype Cycle says.
These costs are difficult to justify for some large workloads, which Gartner wrote "do not benefit from the same density gains and cost savings as consolidating small workloads."
Devirtualization can therefore help, argues Gartner – with many caveats about the cost and complexity of acquiring and operating bare-metal systems that offer the same resiliency as a virtualized environment.
