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Hypervisor Market Commoditizing Quickly

Wow, did you catch all of the announcements for new hypervisors? Oracle has one…. Sun has one… Microsoft unveiled their plans – and pricing, for Hyper-V…. heck, even Phoenix is planning on one. These, added to a market that includes VMware, Xensource, SWSoft, SuSE, Red Hat, IBM, Qumranet… well, you get the picture. This is [...] Read More

Considering Hypervisors: Performance isn’t the only factor

VMware has now moved on to picking on Xen, as it attacked performance of the open source hypervisor with a test configuration that most would agree is unfair. XenSource has fired back with their own test results, which appear to show commercialized Xen performing as well, if not better, than VMware ESX. I say “appear” [...] Read More