RSSTue, May 06, 2008 - Launched in 2003 to sell the Xen open-source hypervisor and services surrounding it, open source software vendor Virtual Iron was one of the few direct competitors to VMware that was not an operating system company or closely aligned with an OS company.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Scalent's tools are designed to help migrate physical servers to virtual by remotely reconfiguring and reassigning individual server images to virtual machines.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Red Hat, known for its Linux and open-source operating system expertise and related software, built a hypervisor into the base version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Parallels, a maker of a multi-operating-system based hypervisor and guest OS management tools, broke the pattern of Unix-or-Windows based virtual servers by expanding to build one that can run on top of Macintosh hardware and operating systems.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Known for IT process automation and systems management, Opalis built support for VMware and Microsoft virtual servers into its server-provisioning and policy administration tool.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Adopting the manager-of-managers concept from network management, ManageIQ's EVM Control is designed to manage other management products, starting with VirtualCenter.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Leostream's products are designed to help automate the conversion from physical servers to virtual ones.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - FalconStor's support for many vendors allows customers to mix and match storage hardware into a single virtual storage setup.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - Double-Take is one of a growing number of developers making utilities and add-on products designed to build manageability, and RAS (reliability/availability/serviceability) functions into both virtual servers as well as the physical servers on which they run.
Tue, May 06, 2008 - B-hive's primary product, Conductor, runs as an appliance, monitoring user connections and network traffic to and from virtual servers in order to provide a detailed view of activity for both performance management and network mapping and optimization.
