March 16, 2009

Server Trends: The Hypervisor Wars Heat Up

Segment Your Virtualization Portfolio To Maximize Value And Performance

by James Staten

with Galen Schreck, Ben Echols

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Consolidation and virtualization are top priorities for nearly every infrastructure and operations professional, especially when budgets are shrinking. The recent release of Hyper-V, Microsoft's entry into the hypervisor space, provides a significant alternative to VMware ESX, myriad Xen flavors, and KVM (a dark horse open source solution). The question isn't which virtual infrastructure to choose, as there is a place for all options in your server virtualization portfolio. Therefore, it behooves every organization to leverage hypervisor-agnostic management tools that let you take advantage of the relative merits of each while staying flexible and avoiding both vendor lock-in and excessive complexity.

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