The experts within our Technology Group maintain ongoing contact with a wide range of knowledgeable sources to stay abreast of the issues and trends that could impact the industry’s M&A climate or otherwise influence our clients’ businesses.  Following are a few of the topics addressed in our most recent Technology Industry Review, which is published quarterly.

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TECHNOLOGY REVIEW (2009: Q3) (View complete report)

Thoughts from the Group

Virtualization is the new hot growth area in the technology sector. Industry trends are driving the demand for virtualization as a way to reduce costs and support green information technology (IT) strategies without sacrificing the quality of service. Growth of virtualization as a strategy remains strong and is expected to lead to industry consolidation by major players.

Silver Lining in an Uncertain Economic Environment - A Spotlight on Virtualization

Another quarter of slowed M&A in the technology sector depicts the continued concern of CIOs over optimizing IT infrastructure to make it easier to enhance its capacity for existing services and to reduce the cost of labor. In such an environment, virtualization has almost entered the enterprise mainstream that makes hardware significantly more efficient, whether deployed on servers, client machines or storage devices. Benefits accruing from virtualization, including reduction in hardware costs and floor space requirement, disaster recovery, productivity improvement in data center and better utilization of computing, are motivating increased deployment of this technology. This trend calls for a significant growth in virtualization over the next few years.

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