VMworld 2006 Interesting Stats

I think I captured most of the relevant stats but I may have missed a few.

Revenue growth:

  • 2001 – 8 Million
  • 2002 – 22 Million
  • 2003 – 76 Million
  • 2004 – 218 Million
  • 2005 – 387 Million
  • 2006 (3 Quarters)- 477 Million

Revenue breakdown:

  • 2005 – 82% from partners
  • 2006 – 85% from partners

60% of Virtual Infrastructure implementations are on SAN infrastructure

Estimated Terabytes directly driven by virtualization:

  • 2004 – 8 TB
  • 2005 – 26 TB
  • 2006 – 61 TB
  • 2007 – 126 TB

Average Deal Size:

  • 2004 – 13K
  • 2005 – 37K
  • 2006 – 50K
  • Services drag of 4X

Partners who do VMware and Microsoft services related work will make more money on VMware services than they will on Microsoft related services.

Partners are reporting 23% account base penetration estimated to grow to 45% over the next 2 years.

Market is made up of 38 million x86 servers VMware is installed on 4%.

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