VMware Ain't the Only Hypervisor in Town
VMware made news last month when Dell, HP and IBM
all
agreed to bundle a small, tight version of VMware with its servers. This
made it seem almost like VMware is the only game in town, the Microsoft of virtualization.
The reality is the field is far more complex and competitive.
It's not just the looming threat of Hyper-V, which will be huge as Microsoft
is making all the right moves with pricing and enticing developers. Citrix is
also playing big-time in this space with its acquisition of Xen. Sun is basing
its new xVM hypervisor on Xen, and last week HP
announced that it will embed a version of XenServer on HP servers -- just
like it's doing with VMware.
Like the early days of productivity software and even desktop operating systems,
this market is wide-the-heck-open. This is gonna be fun.
Posted by Doug Barney on March 24, 2008