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Information Technology News Red Hat out virtualises ESX with purchase of Qumranet, ready to take on Microsoft
Information Technology News Red Hat out virtualises ESX with purchase of Qumranet, ready to take on Microsoft | Red Hat out virtualises ESX with purchase of Qumranet, ready to take on Microsoft |
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| Information technology news - Enterprise | |
| by Mike Bantick | |
| Saturday, 13 September 2008 | |
  
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The ‘glossies’ on the KVM (kernel-based virtualization machine) hypervisor are pretty impressive when stacked up to the rivals, at least on the capacity front. Boasting the ability to host up to 52 virtual machines against VMWares ESX which has a 35 machine capacity, or Citrix Xenserver at a 30 machine capacity, KVM looks like a nice way to further consolidate server Iron. Given Microsoft’s lack of Red Hat support under Hyper-V, there is space for the two to compete at the enterprise level for the hearts and minds of CIO’s across the planet. At a recent UK press conference Paul Cormier, Red Hat president of products and technologies said` “From the beginning we saw virtualisation as part of the OS. We see ourselves as one of only two vendors that can provide a full solution.” For their part Red Hat has a virtualisation vision that extends further than simple server consolidation. Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, at the same UK press conference outlaid plans for some cloud computing fun, using Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure. “Our vision in simple terms is there will be private networks completely manage, semi-private networks, networks that are off somewhere where users want to deploy resources and to spin them up for peaks and lows,” said Stevens. “there’s not going to be just one cloud out there. It’s very important that there’s federation out there. We’re seeing a lot of customers wanting to build their own clouds too.” Red Hat would like enterprise computing becoming very collaborative, with companies, even rivals, being enabled to form clouds of computing power for each company involved to utilise. |
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