The Open Virtualization Alliance has already gathered 200 participants.
It seems that quite recently I wrote about 65 new OVA participating companies , and now there are already 200. If this consortium continues to grow at the same pace, the overthrow of VMware from the throne of the virtualization market may happen much earlier than it seems.
The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) - a consortium founded in May by Red Hat to promote open source alternatives to the VMware hypervisor - has grown to 200 participants.
On Monday, OVA announced that many of the new consortium companies came from the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America, and the business of most of the participants is directly related to cloud computing. Among the last of the companies that have joined OVA are NEC, Hitachi, Platform Computing and Tripwire.
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“The rapid growth in the number of OVA participants is a very encouraging sign, it illustrates the huge interest of the IT industry in KVM and the great potential of this technology in growing markets and in cloud computing. Open virtualization is ready to be the key to cloud technologies. More than 200 participants in three months is a fast pace and the foundation of a really solid foundation for a strong union, ”says Gary Chen, head of IDC for enterprise virtualization research, in a statement.
“With such a confident and long-lasting increase in the number of participants, it will be interesting to look at how productive and influential the alliance can contribute to the development of KVM in the near future.”
The stated goal of the organization is to promote open source virtualization, but it’s hard not to notice that the main efforts of the consortium are aimed at promoting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). The alliance was promoted by the desire of IT players to counter VMware, with its huge market share, but so far it is not noticeable that everything that happens has any effect for the virtualization company Paul Maritz, which, according to some estimates, takes more than 75% of the market .
At the same time, the consortium is becoming a dangerous competitor for Microsoft. Last week, the corporation held a presentation glorifying the merits of Windows 8 Server as a virtualization platform. Redmond said that this third attempt to offer virtualization tools for business and it will be the most complete, compared to the previously proposed ones, and will become a real competitor to VMware.
The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) - a consortium founded in May by Red Hat to promote open source alternatives to the VMware hypervisor - has grown to 200 participants.
On Monday, OVA announced that many of the new consortium companies came from the emerging markets of Asia and Latin America, and the business of most of the participants is directly related to cloud computing. Among the last of the companies that have joined OVA are NEC, Hitachi, Platform Computing and Tripwire.
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“The rapid growth in the number of OVA participants is a very encouraging sign, it illustrates the huge interest of the IT industry in KVM and the great potential of this technology in growing markets and in cloud computing. Open virtualization is ready to be the key to cloud technologies. More than 200 participants in three months is a fast pace and the foundation of a really solid foundation for a strong union, ”says Gary Chen, head of IDC for enterprise virtualization research, in a statement.
“With such a confident and long-lasting increase in the number of participants, it will be interesting to look at how productive and influential the alliance can contribute to the development of KVM in the near future.”
The stated goal of the organization is to promote open source virtualization, but it’s hard not to notice that the main efforts of the consortium are aimed at promoting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). The alliance was promoted by the desire of IT players to counter VMware, with its huge market share, but so far it is not noticeable that everything that happens has any effect for the virtualization company Paul Maritz, which, according to some estimates, takes more than 75% of the market .
At the same time, the consortium is becoming a dangerous competitor for Microsoft. Last week, the corporation held a presentation glorifying the merits of Windows 8 Server as a virtualization platform. Redmond said that this third attempt to offer virtualization tools for business and it will be the most complete, compared to the previously proposed ones, and will become a real competitor to VMware.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/128788/
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