So VMware doesn’t own server market virtualization after all?

So confusing all these market studies. VMware is making billions selling its software and services and it still doesn’t own the server virtualization market? Well who owns the server virtualization market then?

Some 91 per cent of the companies polled by Centrify said that they had a hypervisor of some sort on at least one of their server platforms, and 98 percent said they would have at least one platform virtualized by 2010. A pretty healthy 26 percent of those polled said they have virtualized at least half of their servers already, and by the end of 2010, 51 per cent of the companies polled said they expected to have the majority of their servers virtualized.

Only 4 per cent of IT shops that spoke to Centrify said they would have all of their servers virtualized by the end of 2010, and 22 per cent of those polled said they expected to have a fifth or less of their physical server platforms virtualized over that same term.

About 32 percent of the companies polled that have hypervisors installed on at least one platform say they use VMware’s ESX Server (bare-metal or type 1), ESXi (type 1 and free), or VMware Server (type 2 hosted and also free) software to virtualize their iron. Another 43 per cent of the companies used a mix of VMware and other server virtualization products, and 25 per cent have virtualization, but none of it is from VMware. About 38 per cent of the IT shops polled by Centrify said they only had one hypervisor platform at their company, 29 per cent said they had two different ones, and 33 per cent said they had three or more hypervisors carving up their iron into virtual bits.

Here’s the distribution of hypervisors by company according to the Centrify survey:

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