Open Virtualization Alliance Expands to 65 New Members

The Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium aimed at fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies, has added 65 new members, achieving nearly ten-fold growth since its establishment just one month ago. The consortium, formed by technology leaders BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc., and SUSE, aims to provide education, best practices, and technical advice to businesses considering open source virtualization alternatives like KVM. With over 130 members now, the Open Virtualization Alliance encompasses a wide range of companies across hardware, software, services, and cloud computing businesses.

Key Takeaways:

• The Open Virtualization Alliance has grown to over 130 members, including 65 new additions, with nearly ten-fold growth in just one month.
• Founding members include BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc., and SUSE.
• New members offer software and services in various areas, including virtualization management, cloud computing, storage management, datacenter automation, network management, and business solutions.
• OVA members provide educational resources on KVM, including analyst white papers, security information, configuration suggestions, and best practices.
• Recent benchmarks have demonstrated strong performance levels and scalability of KVM, with KVM being used in 9 out of 14 SPECvirt results.
• The Open Virtualization Alliance plans to hold its first formal Board meeting at the end of June.
• The consortium aims to foster the adoption of KVM as an open virtualization alternative, accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem of third-party solutions, increase overall awareness and understanding of KVM, encourage interoperability, promote best practices, and highlight customer successes.

Statistics:

• Over 130 members, including 65 new additions, have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance.
• 9 out of 14 SPECvirt results feature KVM.
• 20- and 40-core systems demonstrate KVM leadership.
• 80-core systems have KVM as the sole submitted benchmark.
• Four new benchmark results have been published on the SPECvirt website this quarter.
• SPECvirt_sc2010 is the SPEC benchmark for evaluating the performance of datacenter servers used for virtualized server consolidation.

Sources:

• Open Virtualization Alliance press release.
• BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc., and SUSE press releases.
• Information Technology Newsweekly via VerticalNews.com.