VMware customers looking for alternatives?

Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Friday, June 23, 2006 | 1 Comments

The SWsoft blog about Virtuozzo published a small but interesting report of customer interest at just concluded Microsoft TechEd 2006 conference:

A lot more people are using virtualization compared to TechEd 2005. 80% are using virtualization and 100% are evaluating it for deployments – compared to 50% and 60-70% respectively at TechEd 2005

VMware users were much more interested to alternative approaches. Last year VMware users may or may not have had the time to talk to us… this year they did

Hardware virtualization is still used mostly for testing and development. Only about 25% or less of the people I talked to use it in production

About 80% of the production hardware virtualization users mention “OS sprawl” either as a problem they’re dealing with now or something they’re anticipating in the near future

Read the whole article at source. I would further investigate why customers could be start looking for alternatives. In this other article SWsoft suggests reasons.

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Anonymous Friday, June 23, 2006 4:50:00 PM

"...VMware users were much more interested to alternative approaches. Last year VMware users may or may not have had the time to talk to us..."
Look who is talking: http://virtuozzo.livejournal.com/
It is all speculations and commercial; no statistics, no analys.

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