Sun enters virtualization market with xVM portfolio
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Sun Microsystems today released it’s xVM portfolio offering just in time for VMworld 2008 to be held in Las Vegas from September 15th - 18th.
The xVM portfolio includes xVM Ops center, xVM server, xVM Virtual Box and xVM VDI, a comprehensive software offering for server, desktop virtualization and remote management of virtualized infrastructure.
- xVM Ops Center Discover, provision, update, and manage globally dispersed IT environments from one console
- xVM VirtualBox for desktop users to build, test, and run applications on one desktop or laptop for multiple OS platforms side by side.
- xVM Server for virtualizing systems and services in a Windows, Solaris OS, or Linux environment
- Sun VDI Software provides secure access to a virtual desktop from nearly any client on the network
This takes Sun head to head with VMware, Microsoft and Redhat ( oVirt ) who have competing offerings. OS vendors are increasingly moving towards bundled virtualization offerings to entrench themselves deeper into customer deployments and are trying to break VMware’s monoply.
VMware’s competing software portfolio alone gives it a market cap of 13 billion dollars, more than the total market cap of Sun with it’s software and server businesses combined. This could be a bet that could pay off big time for Sun. Sun shares were up 4% on the news today.
Sun xVM Server software is designed to interoperate with VMware and uses the same virtual hard disk and virtual appliance formats, enabling customers to easily move workloads between VMware ESX and Sun xVM Server software.
The xVM offering is open source and can be downloaded from openxvm.org.
