{"id":3819,"date":"2013-06-19T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3819"},"modified":"2013-06-19T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T15:00:37","slug":"virtualization-no-traction-from-open-source-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/virtualization-no-traction-from-open-source-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualization: No Traction from Open Source Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMWare continues to lead the virtualization market. \u00a0Open Source alternatives just aren&#8217;t getting any traction.<\/p>\n<p>A recent <a title=\"Survey by OpsView\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opsview.com\/whats-new\/news\/virtualization-private-cloud-survey\" target=\"_blank\">survey by OpsView<\/a> of IT managers looked at how IT shops are using virtualization technology. \u00a075 percent of businesses report that they&#8217;ve now virtualized all of their IT infrastructure. \u00a0The trends toward which virtualization technologies are being used is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>54 percent<\/strong> prefer VMWare when using virtualization<\/li>\n<li><strong>18 percent<\/strong> say that they prefer Microsoft&#8217;s HyperV<\/li>\n<li><strong>12 percent<\/strong> say that they prefer Open Source options like KVM and Xen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Tom Callway bio\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.linkedin.com\/in\/tomcallway\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Callway<\/a>, marketing manager at Opsview, said, &#8220;what was surprising was the lack of traction by open source virtualization technologies such as KVM and Xen. Similarly open source private cloud initiatives like CloudStack and OpenStack didn\u2019t feature in our respondents plans as strongly as we\u2019d anticipated. \u00a0As enterprises complete their virtualization projects and turn toward private cloud initiatives, there will be significant opportunity for cloud IaaS technology vendors in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report also found that about 25 percent of IT departments had already adopted Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions with 35 percent planning to use it in the near future. \u00a056 percent were using Amazon&#8217;s AWS for IaaS, and 19 percent opted for Rackspace.<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fvirtualization-no-traction-from-open-source-alternatives%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" 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