Virtualisation shootout, the market has choices and moving to IaaS

Paul Venezia over at Infoworld wrote an article called "Virtualization shoot-out: Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, and VMware".  He obviously put a lot of thought and effort into the shoot-out.  To be fair to the guy, he tries to be honest and fair in his assessments.  What is nice to see is that Hyper-v stands up well against the rivals.  VMware finish just ahead, but thats not entirely unexpected.  Have a read of the articile https://www.infoworld.com/d/virtualization/virtualization-shoot-out-citrix-microsoft-red-hat-and-vmware-666?page=0,0

The thing I would like to point out is that there is space in the datacentre for more than one virtualisation platform.  Think about it, its not uncommon to have multiple server hardware vendors.  So why would the virtual platform be different?

The other point Id like to make is that virtualising is only the first part of the journey towards Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).  Have a look at the slide below.

 True IaaS (or Private Cloud) will have Automation, Management Orchestration and a defined user interface for the various tenants.  Check out https://www.microsoft.com/virtualization/en/us/private-cloud.aspx for more info.