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Internet Research Group Publishes Research Study On
Microsoft Virtualization
Los Altos, CA – August 19,
2008 – Internet Research Group (IRG) today announced the release
of its latest report on technology infrastructure, “Why Microsoft
Virtualization is Different (and possibly better).”
With this summer’s launch of
Hyper-V, Microsoft began shipping its long awaited entry into the server
virtualization market in competition with VMware’s ESX, the market leader.
This new research report compares Microsoft’s quite distinct virtualization
strategy to that of VMware as the two companies battle to win enterprise
customers.
“As the old saying goes, if
all you have is a hammer then everything is a nail,” noted Peter Christy,
co-founder of IRG. “VMware has built a very successful business around the
hypervisor and virtual machine, and not surprisingly expresses its strategy
that way. Microsoft has a much broader set of products, and sees
virtualization just as one element in their effort to improve IT
effectiveness. Is this all just marketing spin or is there real substance
here?”
This report compares the
business value focus of Microsoft and VMware as they continue to develop
market opportunities for their virtualization products.
Vendors directly impacted by
Microsoft’s virtualization market entry include: Citrix, HP, IBM, EMC,
Parallels, Virtual Iron and VMware. One step removed most IT participants
are impacted by virtualization and this business competition.
You can download a
table of contents for this study
by clicking here.
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About Internet Research Group --
The Internet Research Group (IRG)
provides marketing and strategy research reports and consulting services,
specializing in areas related to the interaction of networks and
applications.
Editor’s note:
John Katsaros is available to
provide background discussion, quotes or references for articles related to
network infrastructure and security.
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