Trend Report

Server Trends: The Hypervisor Wars Heat Up

Segment Your Virtualization Portfolio To Maximize Value And Performance

James Staten
 and  two contributors
Mar 16, 2009

Summary

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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