[SD Times] Virtualization Expands Across Top Platforms
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Mandriva CEO Francois Bancilhon said his company hopes to expand server usage through virtualization. He said that a server that is used only 20 percent of the time can be put to use hosting other services via virtualization, something he says will help enterprises better meet the online demands of their customers.
He also explained why his company chose OpenVZ over the more popular open-source Xen Linux-based virtualization suite. “We think OpenVZ also provides a really valuable alternative to Xen, with ‘jail-based’ virtualization approaches serving different needs in this market segment,” said Bancilhon, referring to the method by which OpenVZ segregates each instance of a virtualized operating system. “So we chose OpenVZ and partnered with SWSoft for these very reasons: It’s open source and it works. And this is what customers are asking us to provide in our next Corporate Server release: proven, standard technology that works, right now.” SWSoft builds the Virtuozzo virtualization platform for Linux and Windows.
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