Interesting article in NetworkWorld talking about market shares gains of alternative hypervisors to VMware.

According to the article and IDC, Hyper-V grew last year at 62%. Also in the article, Gartner states Hyper-V market share will be 27% of the market, up from 11% two years.

Those are some significant changes.

This data makes sense especially in light of the technical advances in Hyper-V over the past few years. Our Senior Systems Engineer, Jonathan Klick, created a compelling chart showing some interesting characteristics between vSphere 5 and Hyper-V 3:

You can read his entire blog post here.

The market share numbers are interesting in that they reflect a diversification of hypervisors. What they don't reflect is diversification of hypervisors within an organization. We are clearly starting to run into these organizations, and believe they are growing.  Application affinity, open source dedication, cost, tiering strategies, acquisitions, all drive organizations to adopt multiple hypervisor technologies.  So whether you are operating as a monolithic hypervisor company, or you run multiple hypervisors, or are using one of the emerging vendors, it looks as though you are in good company. Greater hypervisor diversity in the market is a good thing and will continue to accelerate.

Bryan Semple
CMO
VKernel

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