Gartner says 16% of workloads are running in virtual machines today

Gartner reported this week that server virtualization is not as widespread as many presume, but deployment is spreading rapidly. Only 16% of workloads are running in virtual machines today, but Gartner predicts that this will rise to around 50% of x86 architecture server workloads by the end of 2012, representing approximately 58 million deployed machines. Gartner said that the fastest growing market for virtual machines is the small business sector.