Gartner Declares Microsoft as a leader in x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure
Recent research released on June 30, 2011 from Gartner, Inc. (www.gartner.com) under the title Gartner Magic Quadrant for X86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure by analyst Tom Bittman – reports Microsoft as a LEADER and delivers valuable information about the server virtualization market!
About Microsoft virtualization and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
We believe that Microsoft Virtualization solutions provide your customers with the choice, flexibility, integration and cost savings to make the most of their virtualization and management investments. However, virtualization is just the start on the journey to cloud computing. In order to get the full advantage of cloud-computing in your customers datacenter, via a private cloud, they need to have world-class management capabilities that deeply understand the virtualized infrastructure—but more importantly have an in-depth understanding of the applications that are running in their virtualized infrastructure. Microsoft’s solutions offer the simplest path to build private clouds at lowest price, using the infrastructure you are already familiar with and integrating seamlessly across the common virtualization platforms.
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You can find the full independent report here.
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