ServerWatch: Xen Hypervisor Goes Standard

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Cynthia Harvey
Dec 1, 2006

“Simon Crosby, CTO at XenSource, has begun calling Xen the ‘de
facto standard’ hypervisor for virtualization even though
enterprise-ready Xen solutions have spent just months in the market
and as yet have virtually no market share.

“Those with less monetary interest in its success don’t call Xen
the standard but do admit it has a good chance for widespread
adoption. Gartner analyst George Weiss says that although Xen
‘looks good,’ it’s a little bit ‘presumptuous’ for vendors to tout
it as the standard at this point…”

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