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Open source virtualization championed by new alliance

News Article - Thursday, 15 December 2011 13:17

An alliance of top software developers - including Canonical, Cisco, IBM, Intel, NetApp, Red Hat and SUSE - has been created to champion the development of open source virtualization platforms. The oVirt project has the core aim of creating an openly governed virtualization stack that would allow for much better integration and the implementation of more advanced management techniques.

Jean Staten Healy, director of Linux at IBM, said: "We are excited to be a part of the oVirt project." He added that the initiative "and the work of the Open Virtualization Alliance are important steps forward in making open virtualization a reality for businesses around the world."

One of the other key goals of oVirt is the creation of modular, highly-reusable management tools that could be used in both public and private cloud deployments.

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