Datamation's Virtualization Crystal Ball

Writing over at Datamation, Jeff Vance has "10 Virtualization Predictions for 2009." It's hard to argue that 2008 was a huge year for virtualization as a whole, and the release of Microsoft's Hyper-V was only one of the highlights.

Among Vance's predictions:

• The bad economy will be a boon for virtualization
• Storage virtualization will have a big year in 2009
• Desktop virtualization will ramp up
• Management tools for virtualization will become huge

And of course, no column on technology predictions is complete without a little speculation on possible acquisitions. And in the virtualization world, that means VMware.