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Virtualization Update: Virtual Iron Signs OEM Agreement with Dell

Follows trend started by VMware and Citrix to tie the hypervisor to popular OEM servers
By Alessandro Perilli
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November 21, 2007 06:30 PM EST
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Virtual Iron is following the trend started by VMware and Citrix to tie the hypervisor to popular OEM servers.

Quoting from the official announcement:

Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization software solutions, today announced a new worldwide authorized reseller agreement with Dell Corporation. Dell will work through Virtual Iron?s distribution channel and resell the software to end-users as part of an extensive portfolio of server virtualization and storage offerings...

At this point only Microsoft is missing the party (Sun will do this for sure once its upcoming xVM hypervisor will be out). But two points lead me to think that the Redmond software giant will soon join its competitors:

  • Microsoft already has an OEM agreement with most hardware vendors to pre-install Windows into 95% of shipping servers worldwide. Since Windows is going to embed Microsoft hypervisor the company will automatically have an OEM agreement for virtualization platform since day 1.
  • Microsoft is about to distribute a parallel, stand-alone version of Hyper-V (formerly Viridian / Windows Server Virtualization). This is made to address VMware ESX 3i product, but probably also to attract those hardware vendors which don't want to offer a full copy of Windows Server 2008 on their servers.

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Alessandro Perilli has been an evangelist in the virtualization industry since 2003, through his popular blog virtualization.info. As an industry analyst his work is mostly focused in observing and reporting on new and ongoing market trends, and maintaining a tight relationship with consolidated vendors and emerging startups. Alessandro has a parallel focus in the computer security industry, in which he has been active for more than 10 years, achieving certifications such as the CISSP, and collecting awards such as the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP).

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