Open virtual environments – where their increasing popularity comes from?

Open virtual environments – where their increasing popularity comes from?

Since couple of years we observe a trend of choosing alternative hypervisors then leading ones, such as VMware and Hyper-V.

Open virtual environments based on KVM, such as opensource oVrit or its commercial equivalent RHV, Promox or Citrix XenServer and Oracle VM, became competitors to them. This change of the global trends have many causes. Let’s look at some of them:

Economy:

Customers decide to change the virtual environment and to create new projects based on other virtual environments due to total cost of ownership (TCO) – both under the purchase and subscription matters.

Technology:

In particular, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Virtualization and Oracle VM have become the full-fledged competitors. We can no longer see the strong technological advantage, and quite often above mentioned hypervisors are characterized by unique functionalities.

Cloud market

Cloud providers, due to need of being competitive with others suppliers, are often forced to look for a virtualization platform, which allow them to reduce the overall cost of building their Cloud service. The example of the largest providers, such as Rackspace and OVH, are the best proof, that using open hypervisors can, over time, affect the speed of changes and increase the range of the services available.

Protection

However, some issues remain unchanged – there is still a need for adequate protection of those environments. That’s why Storware invested in open virtual environments security segment for many years. This is how vProtect was created, which in unique way, with agentless architecture, is able to secure these environments, in an efficient and profitable manner. In many ways, it’s an innovative product that sets trends in securing virtual environments, at the same time characterized by affordability and simplicity of use.