Thursday, May 19, 2011
HP, IBM, Intel and Red Hat promote an open virtualisation standard
BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and Suse all banded together to create the Open Virtualisation Alliance, which aims to facilitate interoperability between various vendors virtualisation software. One of the key areas where the firms want to agree upon a standard is for the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).