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Global Virtualization in Industrial Automation Market Forecast 2018-2022 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

[April 25, 2018]

Global Virtualization in Industrial Automation Market Forecast 2018-2022 - ResearchAndMarkets.com

The "Global Virtualization in Industrial Automation Market 2018-2022" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The analysts forecast the global virtualization in industrial automation market to grow at a CAGR of 7.32% during the period 2018-2022.

Virtualization is a technology that makes use of software to create multiple simulated environments from a single hardware system. Hypervisor is a software that disengages virtual machines (VMs) from host servers and assigns computer resources to the VMs.

The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global virtualization in industrial automation market for 2018-2022. To calculate the market size, the report presents a detailed picture of the market by way of study, synthesis, and summation of data from multiple sources.

According to the report, one driver i the market is ability to run multiple operating systems on a single physical server. Operations in industrial plants require multiple servers to run different operating systems and applications. Industrial plants have different applications and operating systems that support automated devices such as SCADA, PLC, and HMI.

The report states that one challenge in the market is physical server failure affects an entire system. The major challenge of deploying virtualization is unplanned downtime. Operators lose visibility of the failure in ICSs such as PLC, SACADA and HMI, after which they are required to revert to manual operations.

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