Virtualization

Microsoft Hyper-V: The Bottom line Microsoft Hyper-V lagged behind VMware's virtualization tool, one of the most popular tools in the space, when it was first released as a standalone product in 2016.  But over the years, Hyper-V has steadily grown to be a worthy adversary. VMware still wins out on sheer breadth of virtualization features, but not everyone needs so many bells and whistles. Server...

Server virtualization software burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. The meteoric rise of VMware – the market pioneer – came about as organizations realized the benefits of consolidating multiple physical servers onto one virtual machine (VM). Gone were the days of low rates of server utilization and one physical server hosting one application. Server virtualization remains a growth area of IT. According to...

Potential buyers considering Oracle virtualization software should answer one question: are we an Oracle shop? If so, data center managers should look at this as their first option. And certainly Oracle, with its long legacy in enterprise IT, knows how to build a virtulization platform. However, feature limitations and low usability scores may lead some to consider VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, or an open source...

See the full list of best server virtualization software. Bottom line: Proxmox may not be familiar to many outside of central Europe. But it is gaining traction due to its smart combination of open-source KVM-based virtualization, software defined storage and containers. Potential buyers need to decide: are we focusing on open source virtualization? If so, Proxmox is a suitable choice, for the company is focused in...