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Intel

Mon, May 05, 2008 - In 2005, Intel, and later AMD, built extensions to their x86 chip architectures that took much of the resource-management load off the hypervisors, making it much easier to build a hypervisor that could run guest operating systems as virtual servers without having to modify them first.

Dell

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Like other hardware vendors, Dell is happy to promote virtualization as a technology that can help sell more servers and storage.

IBM

Mon, May 05, 2008 - As the leading player in data-center hardware, software and integration services, IBM is in an admirable position to welcome all comers to the virtualization market with the storage and server products to support many servers running on one box, and the services to build complex virtual data centers.

Hewlett-Packard

Mon, May 05, 2008 - As a leading server vendor, HP has spread the love among the competitors in the virtualization market, not taking favorites or competing too directly with its own products.

Oracle

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Oracle software is so ubiquitous in corporate data centers that anything connecting it with virtualization is significant. In this case, however, many analysts say Oracle's offering indicates more that basic hypervisors are becoming commodities, rather than anything about a change in Oracle's virtualization strategy.

Sun Microsystems

Mon, May 05, 2008 - As the leading (debatably the only) pure Unix vendor among major industry players, Sun is in a position even more clearly neutral than Novell, and is taking advantage of it.

Microsoft

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Microsoft recognized the threat early and began offering its own virtualization products after acquiring virtualization vendor Connectix in 2004 and re-issuing its products as Virtual Server 2005.

Citrix Systems

Mon, May 05, 2008 - After being left out of the buzz over virtualization for too long, and seeing the market shift toward VMware's approach, Citrix made itself VMware's only real rival by buying developer XenSource last fall.

Novell

Mon, May 05, 2008 - In addition to developing and selling the Xen hypervisor with its own products, Novell has been a key ally of both Microsoft and VMware in the virtualization market.

VMware

Mon, May 05, 2008 - Everyone else in the virtualization market is chasing VMware, which gives it significant power to set direction for the market.

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