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	April 14, 2009 Are Open Source Hypervisors Viable For You? Red Hat And Citrix Ratchet Up Open Source Virtualization Relevancy by James Staten with Ben Echols, Simon Yates

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Executive Summary

The open source hypervisor landscape has become much more interesting following the latest announcements from Red Hat and Citrix Systems. Both announcements were clearly aimed at virtualization juggernaut VMware, but Red Hat's move may only further fragment an open source virtualization community that needs to pull together to legitimately challenge VMware and Microsoft. Enterprise infrastructure and operations (IT ops) professionals should continue to evaluate where these solutions best fit in their environments for cost optimization while building a virtual infrastructure management strategy that embraces heterogeneous hypervisor support.

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