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Six Reasons Why Microsoft’s Hyper-V Will Overtake VMware to Become the Major Player in the x86 Server Virtualization Marketplace

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EMC’s VMware subsidiary has become the information technology (IT) industry’s darling when it comes to providing software that virtualizes (pools) x86-based server hardware resources. VMware has experienced a meteoric and virtually unchallenged ride to the top of the x86 virtualization market, largely due to its strategic vision (VMware saw the vast growth potential for virtualization software when other competitors did not), its innovation, and its solid marketing/sales execution. But Clabby Analytics (that’s me) believes that VMware’s free ride is about to come to an end. With the introduction of Hyper-V by Microsoft, VMware is about to experience some very serious competition from a vendor with deep pockets, with a massive worldwide marketing and sales organization, with major market penetration across Fortune 500 and small and medium business markets, and with extensive and complementary infrastructure and management product depth. In this Market Analysis report, Clabby Analytics explains why I believe that Hyper-V will be overtake VMware in just a few years to become the x86 server virtualization market’s leader.

https://www.clabbyanalytics.com/uploads/HyperVMarketAnalysis-Final_Final_Final.pdf

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  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    The link seems to be broken :(

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    June 30, 2008
    For your pricing analysis to be more realistic, the comparison should have been for 2 procs because you compared MS at 1 proc DC and VMware at 2 proc.  Since most data centers use 2 proc systems these days, using 1 proc comparison is not what IT buyers cut purchase orders for or can directly compare in the real world.

  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 03, 2008
    May I suppose, that if you would get different results for your research (ket's say "Six Reasons Why VMware Will Overtake Hyper-V") you would be fired?

  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 04, 2008
    The publisher of this article has an aol.com email address.  Need I say more?

  • Anonymous
    July 18, 2008
    I don't think this guy has ever used VMware products ... "Examples include VMware Converter (which helps manage other virtual hypervisors — but currently doesn’t manage Hyper-V); VMware Capacity Planner; and VMware ACE (used for desktop virtualization)." VMware Converter is not used to manage other virtual hypervisors, its used for making Physical-to-Virtual conversions and others. Nothing to do with managing! Good point on the aol.com address Trey!

  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2008
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  • Anonymous
    July 22, 2008
    I don't see performance benchmarks, a side-by-side comparison of feature sets, estimated costs, or customer survey results.  The great thing about conjecture is that you don't really have to justify your opinion with facts.  To call this an "analysis," however, is an insult to the people who have taken the time to read it. Certainly, VMware has had a pretty easy time selling their solutions so far, which is one of the benefits of being the first to market.  While Microsoft will certainly offer some competition, it doesn't look like their first version of Hyper-V is there yet.  It lacks the functionality and performance of VMware's offerings.  While some small IT shops who do not currently have virtualization may adopt Hyper-V due to convenience and familiarity with the vendor, I'm skeptical that organizations who want to virtualize large data centers in a big way will choose Microsoft to do so.  I also don't believe that Microsoft (yet) poses any serious threat of replacing VMware products in data centers that already use them. VMware is run by smart (arrogant or not) people.  They're no doubt aware of the imminent competition, and what will happen to VMware if they cannot continue to innovate and provide compelling value to customers.  If VMware and Microsoft (and Citrix?) can all survive in the virtualization market, the competition will compel technological advancement and lower pricing.  In the end, that would be a great situation for IT consumers.