This is a cautionary tale about the need to carefully examine analyst firm projections and not just highlights of that data, summarized by someone else. Most complaints about analyst projections focus on the wildly optimistic numbers they assign to putative market sizes-you know the "[We] (insert name of analyst firm) estimate the left-handed mouse market will be $17 billion by 2012." If you took all the market projections by all the analyst firms and added them up, they'd probably sum to more than global GDP, leaving no room for all those unimportant sectors of the economy like manufacturing, agriculture, construction, and, of course, pet psychotherapy.
But this post isn't going to complain about over-optimistic analyst projections. Instead, it's about the need to examine them-because in this instance, the analyst firm did a good job of estimation about the financial benefits of virtualization, but their numbers were misquoted, leading someone who would take them at face value to conclude that client virtualization doesn't really offer much financial payback-a conclusion at odds with the firm's actual numbers, a disservice to its work, and misleading to anyone who was looking for help to decide whether to pursue a client virtualization strategy.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, Virtualization Projections Deserve Scrutiny - CIO.com
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