This week has been a good one in terms of new, tangible research predicting rapid revenue growth in desktop virtualization starting as early as this calendar year. Here are the specific data points:

• Credit Suisse released a report that highlights a recent CIO survey they conducted. The survey reinforces their top line revenue predictions for the desktop virtualization market. Specifically, their model calls for client and server hosted desktop virtualization software revenue of $440M in 2008 and $750M in 2009.
• A 451 report that highlights research conducted on 350+ IT buyers which shows that more than 60% of respondents already have budgets earmarked for virtual desktop technologies.

This is on top of some strong revenue predictions that came out of reports published last year:

• An IDC forecast (4/07) predicted client and server hosted desktop virtualization software revenue of about $500M in 2008 and $800M in 2009.
• A Bernstein Research report (4/07) predicted server hosted desktop virtualization software revenue of $500M in 2010.

So from both the industry and equity analyst perspectives, the market for desktop virtualization in general and server hosted (VDI) architectures specifically look poised for strong growth.