Cloud Computing: Open source virtualization software still trails, despite improvements

Grazed from TechTarget.  Author: Colin Steele.

Open source virtualization is still a niche technology, despite the rise of multi-hypervisor infrastructures.  Recent open source virtualization software releases have packed in new features with impressive specs, and there’s a clear appetite for VMware Inc. alternatives in enterprise data centers.

One might think these two factors would combine to provide a major boost in open source virtualization’s market share, but that hasn’t happened. Among VMware competitors, only Microsoft’s proprietary Hyper-V has benefited, according to data and several solution providers and analysts who work with multi-hypervisor clients…


“It tends to be Hyper-V,” said Josh Townsend, virtualization practice manager at Clearpath Solutions Group in Herndon, Va. “Every once in a while we run into Citrix for virtual desktops.”  Other speakers and attendees at this week’s Virtualization Technology Users Group (VTUG) meeting here echoed Townsend’s statement. And when it comes to their customers’ first choices, open source virtualization software hasn’t fared any better…

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