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13 Top Virtualization Vendors all around the World

| Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Here is the list of top virtualization vendors all around the world:

1. VMWare (Virtual Machine Software)

Find a major data center anywhere in the world that doesn't use VMware,.VMware owns anywhere from 55-85% of the virtualization market. VMware dominates the server virtualization market. VMware also dominates the desktop-level virtualization market and perhaps even the free server virtualization market with its VMware Server product. VMware remains in the dominant spot due to its innovations, strategic partnerships and rock-solid products.


2. Citrix

Open-source alternative to VMware.

3. Oracle

4. Microsoft

Microsoft Virtual Server was a dud. Virtual Server has captured a scant 7% market share.Viridian also failed to perform and comptete in the market.

5. Red Hat

For the past 15 years, everyone has recognized Red Hat as an industry leader and open source champion. Hailed as the most successful open source company, Red Hat entered the world of virtualization in 2008 when it purchased Qumranet and with it, its own virtual solution: KVM and SPICE (Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environment). Red Hat released the SPICE protocol as open source in December 2009.

6. Amazon

Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is the industry standard virtualization platform. Ubuntu's Cloud Server supports seamless integration with Amazon's EC2 services. EngineYard's Ruby application services leverage Amazon's cloud as well.

7. Google

When you think of Google, virtualization might not make the top of the list of things that come to mind, but its Google Apps, AppEngine and extensive Business Services list demonstrates how it has embraced cloud-oriented services.

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