VMware and Microsoft are the top virtualization leaders, according to Gartner

VMware and Microsoft are the top visualization leaders, according to Gartner:

Gartner published its Magic Quadrant Infrastructure x86 server virtualization 2015. VMware and Microsoft maintained its place in the upper right quadrant of Gartner, which is reserved for leaders. Vendors that have been made in Quadrant niche players are Citrix, Huawei, Odin, Oracle and Red Hat. 
VMware leads the group, but faces challengesVMware is still the undisputed leader in the segment of x86 virtualization, but it is clear that the company is under pressure due to the increasing adoption of infrastructure services cloud, market saturation, and the pressure of competition from Microsoft. Gartner says it is seeing an increase in requests from clients about the comparison vSphere and Hyper-V.While some large companies are moving away from VMware to Microsoft, some Hyper-V pass to vSphere. The company also faces a competitive threat from Oracle, customers prefer to run the basic workloads of vital data in a consistent visualization platform certified. The increase in the adoption of private clouds based on Open Stack containers has an impact on the adoption of v Sphere in the company. Red Hat is moving toward becoming a convenient platform for running visualized Linux workloads.Gartner also highlighted the tendency of workloads in native mobile cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platforms like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, which is a concern for VMware. Air vCloud, VMware hybrid cloud platform still has not made a dent in the market.
Microsoft Hyper-V is increasing capabilities AzureThe report comes at a time when Microsoft is developing the next version of Windows Server, which includes a new version of Hyper-V. Compared to last year, Microsoft Hyper-V has moved a few notches in the upper right quadrant, indicating that the company advances its virtualization strategy. Tight integration with Hyper-V tools operating and management system, it is easy for customers to deploy and manage large workloads. Since the hypervisor comes with Windows Server, the cost is almost zero.Gartner, "the efforts of Microsoft to the ability of Azure as attracting interested companies to take advantage of azure and site management both Hyper-V and Azure services. There is growing interest in the use of Hyper-V for development teams based on Microsoft, in particular due to its affinity Azure ".Microsoft's game plan for building a private cloud platform that is compatible with the Azure public cloud pay; He stack recently announced Azure is a step in that direction. With the battlefield plain vanilla slowly virtualization to private cloud moves, Microsoft has consolidated its hybrid cloud strategy by reducing the gap between their platforms of public and private cloud computing.Once branded as only a Windows hypervisor, Microsoft has invested in manufacturing Hyper-V compatible with Linux; This helps the company to acquire new customers with heterogeneous environments. "Hyper-V will probably be more successful in the development of teams interested in Azure, but requiring local implementations. As Microsoft further enhances its affinity Azure support, and adds support for Windows containers in a future version, success with the development teams continue to grow, "says Gartner.Microsoft has a lot to do with their tools compared to VMware; Gartner found that their tools are not easy to use. Similar to VMware, open source technologies eat into Microsoft's visualization revenue.
RHEV as the basis for Red Hat CloudRed Hat looking at the third slot in the Magic Quadrant, after VMware and Microsoft. According to Gartner, Red Hat Enterprise Visualization (RHEV), based on KVM hypervisor has an adoption rate of 5% on the market. RHEV its integrated battery, Cloud Forms, Open Stack and Open Shift will penetrate the enterprise market. Citrix feels the heat of vSphere and Hyper-VCompared to its position in the Magic Quadrant 2014, Citrix has not made much progress with its Xen Server, Xen Desktop and portfolio Xen App. Given the adoption of Xen hyper visor provider market public cloud services, including Amazon Web Services, Citrix focuses on winning this category. Although Xen Desktop and Xen App enjoy widespread use in the segment of desktop visualization, the hyper visor back end is either v Sphere or Hyper-VThe company is also pushing its base Cloud Stack Cloud Platform in the enterprise market. Competition Open Stack and Cloud computing platforms based on commercial vSphere and Hyper-V allows a fierce battle for Citrix.Oracle, Huawei, and Odin found his nicheOracle VM, which is based on the open source Xen hypervisor, is preferred by customers who consider Oracle certification, licensing, and support. Gartner said that the third ecosystem for Oracle visualization is smaller than that of the market leaders, which affects its adoption.Fusion sphere, the visualization platform of Huawei, is making inroads in emerging markets like Brazil, Russia, India and China.In March 2015, Parallels, Inc., a hosting automation multi-platform, spin-off of its service activity in Odin. Given its wide containers experience, the company expects to acquire new suppliers of services to customers.What this means for the company ITWith Gartner indicates that 75% of x86 workloads are already visualized, most organizations believe that the next logical step: the implementation of a hybrid cloud. VMware vCloud Stack Air and Microsoft Azure are viable options for customers to deploy the hybrid strategy.IT company also evaluates the container rapidly evolving technologies. With the recent announcement of the container and cover open Foundation Initiative Aboriginal Computers, the focus is on the migration of a certain class of applications to containers. Traditional visualization vendors such as Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, and investing heavily in technologies containers. The indicators of this trend are: investment in Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Nano containers; The decision to build VMware photon, a specialized operating system for containers; and the launch of Red Hat Atomic host.