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5 Open Source Virtualization Technologies to Watch

January 21, 2011 No Comments

With virtualization now a mainstream technology for most large businesses, the big players like EMC (VMWare), IBM and Microsoft are investing heavily in proprietary options for running multiple guest operating systems on a single machine.

In addition to the commercial products, there is a vibrant open source virtualization ecosystem that CIOs can consider for public and private cloud infrastructure.

In this edition of five open source things to watch, we take a look at virtualization software that can consolidate infrastructure without shrinking the savings.