KVM Consortium Apparently Thriving
September 23, 2011
More than 200 technology companies have joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), the consortium committed to fostering the adoption of Red Hat’s Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), in the three months since it was launched…
Red Hat says more than 50% of them are focused on cloud computing, and virtualization is a key component of every cloud.
OVA membership is also growing significantly among companies in new global regions, including Asia-Pacific and Latin America, reportedly for the minimum investment involved.
At its launch in May OVA had seven founders: BMC, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE. The consortium was at 65 members in June and now it’s got another 134 new members for a total of 206.
With one of its goals the development of best practices around KVM, work has begun on creating and publishing KVM-specific documentation.
KVM claims 10 of the 17 SPECvirt 2010 benchmark results published at http://www.spec.org, including the highest performance benchmark overall and the highest number of performant virtual machines running on a single host.