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Open Virtualization Alliance Sees Rapid Growth with Addition of 65 New Members

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The Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium promoting the KVM ecosystem and educating the market about open virtualization technologies, has announced the addition of 65 new members, bringing its total membership to 90. Since its formation just one month ago, the consortium has seen nearly ten-fold growth in membership, with companies from various industries, including hardware, software, services, and cloud computing, joining its ranks.

Industry leaders such as BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc., and SUSE formed the Open Virtualization Alliance in May to provide education, best practices, and technical advice to help businesses understand and evaluate their virtualization options, including open source alternatives like KVM.

The addition of 65 new members to the consortium has sparked significant interest in participating in the Open Virtualization Alliance, with companies such as Abiquo, AdaptiveComputing, Afore Solutions, and many others joining as general members. This expanded membership is expected to accelerate the emergence of an ecosystem of third-party solutions around KVM, promote interoperability, and increase overall awareness and understanding of KVM.

The OVA is working towards its mission by promoting the growth of an industry ecosystem, providing educational resources, and increasing confidence in KVM. Industry Ecosystem: The OVA is promoting the growth of an ecosystem of solutions around KVM, with new members offering software and services in areas such as virtualization management, cloud computing, storage management, datacenter automation, network management, and business solutions.

Key Takeaways:

  • The Open Virtualization Alliance has added 65 new members to its consortium, bringing its total membership to 90.
  • The consortium has seen nearly ten-fold growth in membership since its formation just one month ago.
  • Companies from various industries, including hardware, software, services, and cloud computing, make up the expanded membership list.
  • Industry leaders like BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc., and SUSE formed the Open Virtualization Alliance in May.
  • The OVA is working towards its mission by promoting the growth of an industry ecosystem, providing educational resources, and increasing confidence in KVM.
  • The consortium has developed a wide range of materials to educate the technical community about KVM, including analyst white papers, security information, configuration suggestions, and shared advice on best practices for KVM.

Statistics:

  • 90 companies are now members of the Open Virtualization Alliance, up from 25 just a month ago.
  • 65 new members joined the consortium, spanning various industries such as hardware, software, services, and cloud computing.
  • 9 out of 14 SPECvirt results feature KVM as the hypervisor.
  • KVM has demonstrated leadership in 20-core and 40-core systems and is the sole submitted benchmark for an 80-core system.

Sources:

  • [www.openvirtualizationalliance.org](http://www.openvirtualizationalliance.org)
  • [www.spec.org](http://www.spec.org) (SPECvirt website)
  • [www.redhat.com](http://www.redhat.com) (Red Hat website)
  • [www.suse.com](http://www.suse.com) (SUSE website)

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