Microsoft is closing in on VMware for virtualization market share, according to a Stratus Technologies-ITIC survey that found Hyper V use increased over 20% in 12 months.
In its spring 2010 survey, 78% of the 243 respondents said they were using VMware while 38% said Microsoft Hyper-V (numbers don’t equal 100% because some respondents use multiple vendors’ products). In the 2011 survey of 250, the gap had closed to 59% for VMware compared to 53% for Hyper-V. Citrix XenServer users doubled year over year from 9% to 18%.
Ninety-four percent of respondents have virtualization somewhere in their infrastructure. Seventy-four percent said they currently run business-critical applications on virtual machines and have plans to increase the number of these applications in the next 12 months.
Microsoft is closing in on VMware for virtualization market share, according to a Stratus Technologies-ITIC survey that found Hyper V use increased over 20% in 12 months.
In its spring 2010 survey, 78% of the 243 respondents said they were using VMware while 38% said Microsoft Hyper-V (numbers don’t equal 100% because some respondents use multiple vendors’ products). In the 2011 survey of 250, the gap had closed to 59% for VMware compared to 53% for Hyper-V. Citrix XenServer users doubled year over year from 9% to 18%.
Ninety-four percent of respondents have virtualization somewhere in their infrastructure. Seventy-four percent said they currently run business-critical applications on virtual machines and have plans to increase the number of these applications in the next 12 months.
Lucas123 writes “After dozens of hard disk drives were stolen from a leased facility in Chattanooga, potentially exposing the personal data of more than 1 million customers, BlueCross decided to go the safe route: they spent $6 million to encrypt all stored data across their enterprise. The health insurer spent the past year encrypting nearly a petabyte of data on 1,000 Windows, AIX, SQL, VMware and Xen server hard drives; 6,000 workstations and removable media drives; as well as 136,000 tape backup volumes.”
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The value of storage as an integral part of an application platform is growing by the day. Just look at the storage appliance news flowing lately – VMware’s vSphere Storage Appliance being the most important recent example, but there are plenty of others.
This VMware software-only product targets small and mid-sized businesses without shared storage resources. It takes the internal storage residing on company servers and virtualizes it into a storage area network (SAN) useable by multiple applications.
This trend illustrates growing awareness that much of the value, the “secret sauce” in storage application platforms, is in the software. The hardware underneath most storage vendors tends to be standard, off-the-shelf, powerful-but-inexpensive componentry.
The biggest of the big storage powers have been working hard to make the shift to a software focus. But as much as they repeat that software mantra – and purchase software companies to prove their provenance – they’re not software companies. At heart, they are tied to their hardware legacy due to established buying patterns that are slow to change, and a fiduciary duty to avoid shifting or cannibalizing their established business models – resulting in more hardware sales (and the support and maintenance associated with that hardware.)
Public cloud, that is
Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux variant is popular out there on the public clouds of the world, but there is a serious mismatch between how support contracts are sold for bare-metal servers used inside corporate data centers and how virtual servers are deployed and used out there on the cloud. And Canonical wants to fix that and make a bit of money, too.…
This white paper describes how virtualization and cloud initiatives are creating new types of management challenges across physical and virtual data center environments. It explains why standardization, automation, and integration of many processes and tools are needed to help IT teams become more productive and agile. It also describes how the CA Automation Suite helps customers address these challenges and includes a case study of one CA Technologies customer that has realized significant productivity improvements using the suite.
Xcedex , a leading provider of IT system cloud, virtualization, and performance optimization solutions announced the release and general availability Read more at VMblog.com.
HP is creating storage solutions designed for, and delivered on, HP Converged Infrastructure. In this session, you’ll learn how HP Storage is building solutions on modern storage architecture designed from the ground up for the unique needs of virtualization, cloud, and ‘big everything’. Published by: Hewlett-Packard Company
This white paper describes the challenges IT organizations face when managing large numbers of user desktop systems and explains how Oracle’s integrated desktop virtualization and storage solution can help. Published by: Oracle Corporation