The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
According to Gartner Vice President Distinguished Analyst
Tom Bittman, “Virtualization is one of the most impactful trends in
computing. The availability of free hypervisors will undoubtedly grow
the market and provide a compelling reason for companies that have not
virtualized their environment to begin doing so.
This is especially true for small to medium
business customers and customers in emerging markets. The hypervisor
itself is really just a foundation. The business model and real value
in virtualization is evolving toward a virtualized infrastructure and
the management and automation tools leveraging the hypervisor.”
Of course, whether giving away ESXi for free will be enough to keep the
Microsoft wolf from the door, with its Hyper-V hypervisor, remains to
be seen. Now that Microsoft has committed itself to the virtualisation
market, existing players have to take it seriously.
The VMware response has certainly been quick, but it isn't the only
free hypervisor around. Citrix already has the open source Xen
available for nothing, for example.
Where VMware hopes to steal, and perhaps seal, the deal is by offering
a mature and established solution on a no-cost basis. Only time will
tell if the strategy is successful.
David Bass
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