The technology of the virtualization seems become today the ground of battle of the editors evolving/moving in class undertaken. In 2006, 40% of the companies used the virtualization, against 29% in 2005. From here with 2009 more half of the waiters of company will be virtualizes according to Gartner.
Symbol of this beautiful strength, editor EMC introduced mid-August on the New Yorkean place 33 million actions A of its VMWare subsidiary company. Spectacular result: the title leaped of 75% as of its introduction.
This very successful introduction was to expect counterparts. It is made thing: Microsoft launched at the beginning of September a new named application’ Systems Center Virtual Machine Manager 2007′. Characteristic of the offer: it proves to be compatible with the virtual machines VMWare and XEN, the floret opensource of the sector recently repurchased by Citrix for 359 M of euros. Citrix, large malicious wolf? To reassure the world of Free (XEN is integrated nativity into several Linux distributions), the company is due so that a Foundation is created, which will play the part of guarantor of the continuity of a solution which acts today as second actor on the market. Does he remain Community actors on the ground? Undoubtedly! KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine - is today the only project independent and free of virtualization.
Integrator SMILE has just published a free work of 40 pages, where the integrator presents the principles of the virtualization and a complete panorama of the open solutions source while being based on a panorama of experience feedbacks.