Voice disaster recovery and other business continuity processes are among the key areas for the growth of virtualisation, a new study indicates.

Research from IDC shows that European organisations are increasingly adopting virtualisation and enhancing their current virtualised infrastructures.

The most significant growth areas for the adoption of virtualisation included improving strategies such as voice disaster recovery, as well as honing backup capabilities and increasing system availability.

Meanwhile, the rate of virtualisation of new servers by companies already using such processes is expected to reach 52 per cent by next year, compared to a figure of 35 per cent in 2007.

Chris Ingle, consulting and research director with the firm's European Systems Group, described these figures as "surprising".

"But more and more people are running applications in a virtualised environment. It is a high number, but it shows the level of adoption," he told Techworld.com.

Speakers at the recent Energy Logic Symposium in Sydney commented on the potential of virtualisation to curb power use, reported ZDNet Australia.

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