Nemertes Impact Analysis:

Cloud Management Release Highlights Interest in Cloud, Multi-Hypervisor Future

Privately held Platform Computing's Platform ISF, going to beta this week, brings the company's grid management expertise to multi-vendor internal clouds, highlighting the importance of multi-hypervisor data centers and growing interest in the creation of un-siloed "internal clouds" in data centers. Platform ISF aims to provide critical cloud functionality by managing workloads for, providing self-service provisioning in, and metering use of, resources controlled by HyperV, Citrix XenSource, or VMware ESX as well as un-virtualized servers. Driving the move to multi-hypervisor infrastructures are the maturation of Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Hyper-V, Citrix's (NASDAQ:CTXS) recession-ready freeware assaults on VMware (NYSE:VMW), and desktop virtualization, in use by 22% of organizations in Nemertes' research, with 30% more planning to deploy within 2 years.

Impacts:

Enterprises: The core of your internal cloud management should cover as many as possible of: physical/virtual resource aggregation; workload, storage, network, and security management; metering/charge-back functions; and a self-service interface.

Vendors: Multi-hypervisor management will get steadily more important; vendors such as Embotics and Vizioncore--and VMware itself--need to look beyond VMware.

Investors: Cloud-oriented management companies include privately held 3Tera and Elastra.

John E. Burke, Principal Research Analyst

http://www.platform.com/Products/platform-isf
http://www.nemertes.com/benchmarks/nemertes_benchmark_desktop_and_server_virtualization

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