Virtualization Strategies for the CIOA strong server virtualization platform lays the groundwork for a high-performing virtual environment, but the options are ever-increasing.
Several major vendors offer proprietary platforms, but there are also open source hypervisors based on Xen and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (or KVM) as well as other approaches that don't involve hypervisors at all. Several new virtualization platforms hit the market in 2009, and here we award three of the best in the Virtualization Platforms category.Virtualization platforms
The top winners in this category are:
- Gold Award:
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With VMware Inc.'s vSphere 4, new levels of virtual machine performance, protection and functionality are now possible.
- Silver Award:
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Citrix Systems' XenServer is now a mainstream platform that has evolved from open source roots
- Bronze Award:
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Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.5
Parallel's Virtuozzo Containers 4.5 allows organizations to reach a higher consolidation ratio than is possible with a typical bare-metal hypervisor.