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Below are several categories for virtualization, each with listings of vendors who offer products, solutions or services in that area. If you are a virtualization company and would like to be added to this list or have any edits made, please contact us.
Application Virtualization
Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets.
AppStream is a Windows application streaming platform. AppStream's Virtual Image Distribution solution works with VMware and Microsoft virtualization products.
IntervalZero Inc.-formerly Ardence, a Citrix Company-designs and develops Embedded software products that deliver real-time capability and that meet the needs of the Embedded technology market.
Attune Systems is a provider of enterprise-class Network File Management (NFM) solutions designed to reduce file management complexity while slashing operating costs and increasing scalability.
BoxedApp provides an SDK for application virtualization features for developers.
ICeedo Technologies Ltd. develops and markets application virtualization software based on patent-pending technologies perfected over the last years.
Citrix completed acquisition of XenSource, the primary commercial maintainer of the Xen open source hypervisor in October 2007. The XenServer family of Xen-based virtualization products now joins Citrix's application delivery product line.
Endeavors Technologies AppExpress is streams encapsulated Windows applications to end user desktops.
Enomaly product include the Enomalism management interface for Xen and the ElasticLive VM hosting platform that is built on top of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Enterprise-Wide Application Access and Virtualization Solutions.
The patent-pending FastScale technology delivers a new generation of software virtualization and provisioning solutions for enterprise-class Web farms and data centers
Applying its patent-pending application virtualization technology, InstallFree eliminates the need to install software applications thus overcoming application conflicts and enabling the delivery of incremental changes on-the-fly and on-demand without changing the organization's existing infrastructure.
Parallels is a US-based marketing arm for S&W Group of Russia, which also controls SWsoft and Acronis. Parallels produces hosted virtualization products for PCs and Intel-based Macs and has announced intentions to release a server product. SWsoft will be adopting the "Parallels" name in 2008.
Scense has 9 years of experience with the development and sales of user centric solutions for application delivery and desktop management.
Thinstall solutions for application virtualization, access and delivery are deployed to millions of desktops worldwide. Customers include GE, the US DoD, Lucent, Northrop Grumman, and Shell.Privately held, Thinstall is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.
Trigence AE is application virtualization software that encapsulates and separates applications and dependencies from their underlying operating systems to simplify application provisioning and eliminate OS conflicts. Trigence application capsules can be provisioned to VMware or Xen VMs.
Xenocode Virtual Application Studio is a clientless application virtualization solution.
Virtual Appliances
Akorri is the pioneer and leader in cross-domain performance management for the virtualized data center. Akorri?s BalancePoint software uses cross-domain analysis and advanced analytics to help companies manage, optimize, and plan performance and utilization across their data center infrastructure.
Altor Networks Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) is the only solution on the market that delivers real-time visibility and historical views into the virtual network activity. Unlike physical network security and monitoring solutions that are completely blind to inter-VM communications, Altor's VNSA analyzes the...
Certeon's aCelera Application Acceleration software is the industry's first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when accessing applications remotely in a distributed enterprise.
Proventia Network Mail is designed to enable organizations of all sizes to block the full realm of malicious code affecting e-mail systems - spam, phishing attacks, viruses, worms and other malcode - while helping to consolidate the number of physical components needed to support and secure their IT environment.
KACE? is the leading Systems Management Appliance company. Our appliance-based approach to managing desktops, laptops and servers saves time and money for systems management professionals and their organizations.
Kerio Technologies is a manufacturer of Internet messaging and security products. Kerio MailServer is an email and collaboration server integrating with leading groupware clients, smartphones and web browsers.
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
rPath software supports creation of virtual appliances. rPath rBuilder enables creation of Linux-based virtual appliances that can run on VMware, Xen and Microsoft virtualization platforms.
VKernel is dedicated to developing best-of-breed virtual appliances that enhance performance, lower costs, and simplify management of virtual environments of all sizes.
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Acronis is owned by SWsoft's parent -- look under "SWsoft" for documents.
AppAssure's flagship application-assurance product, Replay 2007, enables you to eliminate backup windows, ensure predictable and reliable recoveries from any Exchange failure, deliver highly available Exchange-leveraging virtualization...
CiRBA's Data Center Intelligence Software is designed to optimize co-location of compatible VMs when doing server consolidation. CiRBA visually maps optimal consolidation, virtualization or migration outcomes with a unique colored grid presentation.
Citrix completed acquisition of XenSource, the primary commercial maintainer of the Xen open source hypervisor in October 2007. The XenServer family of Xen-based virtualization products now joins Citrix's application delivery product line.
PHD Technologies has pioneered the VMware backup market. PHD was first with Delta technology, first with encryption, first with portable archives and now first again. Introducing the Virtual Backup Appliance or VBA.
From its inception, Data Domain has helped customers reduce or eliminate the use of tape infrastructures with a very efficient disk- and network-based data protection alternative.
Double-Take Software has been designing and deploying data protection longer than anyone else and is the solution of choice for real-time replication and data recovery for more than sixteen thousand customers worldwide, including over half the Fortune 500.
FalconStor Software leads the way in developing innovative and TOTALLY Open Data Protection solutions designed to optimize the storage, protection, and availability of critical business data and applications.
Marathon everRun keeps two x86 Windows servers in lockstep for fault tolerance and high availability. Marathon v-Available extends the technology to Citrix XenServer--release is expected in early 2008.
Microsoft currently offers three hosted virtualization products: Virtual PC for Mac; Virtual PC 2007; and Virtual Server 2005 R2. Microsoft is developing a bare-metal hypervisor called Hyper-V (codename: Viridian) that will be bundled with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V is expected to be generally available in mid-2008.
The Neverfail Group is dedicated to creating a world where business applications are continuously available.
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
As the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive for more than 27 years, Quantum has been focused on helping IT departments address data protection and data retention challenges by incorporating innovative solution sets with world-class service and support.
PlateSpin PowerConvert supports P2V for VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Iron and XenSource platforms. PlateSpin PowerRecon collects physical and virtual machine workload statistics to support server profiling, consolidation and chargeback.
Founded in 2004, RingCube Technologies, Inc. has 24 virtualization patents pending demonstrating its unique technology development. The company is venture- backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and is based in Mountain View, California.
Scalent's Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) software vitualizes server network and storage connections to let you change which servers are running, what software stacks your servers are running, and how those servers are connected to network and storage...
Steeleye provides storage clustering and replication software for high availability and . Steeleye LifeKeeper software is available for ESX Server, VirtualCenter and Microsoft Virtual Server. LifeKeeper operates in virtual machines in the same manner as on physical systems to provide management of individual applications...
Sun Microsystems sells and supports VMware Infrastructure on their x86 servers. Sun also offers Solaris Containers for OS-level virtualization on x86 and SPARC platforms. Sun will roll out their xVM implementation of Xen for their systems in 2008.
Symantec High Availability and Disaster Recovery solution enables users to: Manage multiple local and remote clusters in physical and virtual environments across any distance from a single console, regardless of operating system; Monitor servers, applications, and virtual machines from a single-pane view...
Vizioncore offers a suite of utilities that enhance VMware ESX Server: vRanger, vReplicator, vCharter, vOptimizer, vConverter, vMigrator, vPackager. Vizioncore announced in Sept. 2007 that they would add support for competing hypervisors and...
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and...
UltraBac Software has been an innovator in designing high performance and sophisticated utility software for over 25 years. Specializing in storage management software since 1989, the company released UltraBac Backup and Disaster Recovery for the Windows platform in 1995. As a technology leader, UltraBac Software has ...
Virtualization Consulting
FOCUS consulting offers independent market research, analysis and consulting focused on systems, software, and storage in the enterprise, SMB and government markets.
Sagent Solutions delivers comprehensive end-to-end virtualization solutions and services that can be deployed rapidly and cost-effectively. Our decades of IT experience and key partnerships with strong virtualization technology developers provide Sagent with the expertise and...
Trace|3 provides solutions that reduce complexity within your IT infrastructure by simplifying data management, simplifying server management, and accelerating the network. Our specialty is customizing the solution to allow you to leverage your existing investments while increasing utilization of human capital and equipment.
Tripwire's powerful configuration assessment and change auditing solutions let IT gain configuration control of the entire IT infrastructure.
Unisys has partnered with VMware to promote VI3 as the preferred virtualization solution on their x86 servers.
VIRTERA is an independent IT virtualization professional services and consulting firm with corporate headquarters in downtown New York City.
Virtualization Resource Management
Designed to help large organizations accelerate adoption of VMware ESX Server by securing both VMs and physical servers, as well as endpoints from a single platform, Apani® EpiForce® VM is an ideal solution for cross-platform virtual security
A monitoring tool that supports management of VMware and Xen virtual machines as well as Windows, Linux and MacOS native machines.
Configuresoft's Enterprise Configuration Management (ECM) offers an ECM for Virtualization module that discovers, assesses, manages and visualizes VMware hosts and VMs.
DynamicOps is a venture-funded Credit Suisse spinoff. They offer Virtual Resource Manager that provides VM lifecycle management, a self-service portal and compliance management
Egenera makes blade servers and software to simplify provisioning and movement of blades. Egenera PAN Manager manages provisioning of stateless, diskless blades. Egenera vBlade software partitions physical blades using the XenServer hypervisor.
Idealstor is the developer of a unique suite of products designed to make backing up virtual machines easy and affordable. iBac Data Protection software is a backup solution designed to backup both physical and virtual servers.
Kidaro delivers an end-to-end desktop computing solution for enterprise desktops and laptops. The Kidaro platform leverages innovative virtualization technology to enable enhanced security, manageability, and mobility without disrupting existing desktop capabilities and infrastructure...
Librato is a global leader in application workload management software.
SmartPeak WLM is workload management software for Windows that allocates and prioritizes resources, such as processor, memory and network bandwidth to ensure each application can meet service level guarantees.
Desktop Virtualization
Thin client vendor with a wide range of hardware options including thin clients optimized for desktop virtualization.
Altiris Inc. is a subsidiary of Symantec specializing in service-oriented management software which allows organizations to manage IT assets.
The Desktone Virtual-D Platform is the world's first end-to-end desktop virtualization platform enabling desktops as an always-on, cost-effected hosted service.
Today analysts recognize us as one of the fastest growing and most visionary thin client vendors in the world.
Ericom Software is a leading global provider of Enterprise-Wide Application Access and Virtualization Solutions.
Kidaro offers an ACE-like virtual desktop product that runs its VMs on VMware or Microsoft Virtual PC platforms. Kidaro also offers hosted VM VDI solutions.
Leostream produces the P>V Direct P2V product and the Hosted Desktop Connection Broker.
Moka5 is a desktop virtualization solution based on VMware Player, which is used as the Moka5 "Engine". Moka5 offers downloads of LivePCs, which are desktop virtual appliances. LivePCs can also be installed on USB keys.
Established July 1, 2006, from the combined operations of NEC America, NEC Solutions America and NEC USA, NEC Corporation of America is a leading technology provider of network, IT and IT platform solutions and visual display solutions.
In a short time, we have become the global leader in virtual desktop computing. More than 1,000,000 NComputing systems are deployed by 20,000 organizations in 90 countries.
Neocleus' innovation in virtualization transforms the way endpoints work. The company enables organizations to tackle their most pressing endpoint issues and function at the speed business requires.
vWorkspace future proofs your application delivery and desktop deployments by being hypervisor agnostic while also providing support for multiple deployment options such as Terminal Servers, Blade PCs and VDI. This powerful flexibility transforms your physical desktops into virtual services and provides...
Qumranet is an enterprise software company offering a virtual infrastructure platform to enable Independent Computing.
Panologic provides a VDI solution consisting of the Pano thin client device and the Pano Management Server connection broker and desktop management software. Panologic uses VMware Server and ESX Server as its virtualization platform.
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 800 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.
The RingCube MojoPac suite provides desktop virtualization (MojoStation), portable virtual desktops (MojoDrive) and remotely presented virtual desktops (MojoNet). MojoPac images are not VMs, but encapsulated Windows user envronments that run on a host system without changing its files.
Sentillion vThere is a VMware ACE competitor targeted at Sentillion's core healthcare market. vThere 1.0 used VMware Player as its platform, but vThere 2.0 has switched to Parallels.
Sun Microsystems sells and supports VMware Infrastructure on their x86 servers. Sun also offers Solaris Containers for OS-level virtualization on x86 and SPARC platforms. Sun will roll out their xVM implementation of Xen for their systems in 2008.
Teradici drives innovation to fundamentally change the way people use and deploy computers by developing technology and solutions that deliver a true, uncompromised PC user experience over IP networks.
PHD Technologies has pioneered the VMware backup market. PHD was first with Delta technology, first with encryption, first with portable archives and now first again. Introducing the Virtual Backup Appliance or VBA.
ThinPrint specializes in printing solutions in various network environments across all business sectors worldwide.
INGENICA's award-winning solution, the UniPrint Suite of products, is the complete printing solution for the increasingly-mobile server-based enterprise workforce.
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and...
Win4Lin is an early entrant in desktop x86 virtualization that has not progressed far since its introduction. Its parent company, Virtual Bridges, also offers Win4Solaris and Win4BSD.
Wyse Technology is the global leader in thin computing.
I/O and Network Virtualization
Altor Networks Virtual Network Security Analyzer (VNSA) is the only solution on the market that delivers real-time visibility and historical views into the virtual network activity. Unlike physical network security and monitoring solutions that are completely blind to inter-VM communications, Altor's VNSA analyzes...
AMD Virtualization (AMD-V) technology allows you to better utilize your resources, which makes your servers, workstations, and datacenters more effective. AMD Opteron processors provide a solid foundation for the evolution to x64-based virtualization, giving companies the ability to run both 32- and 64-bit virtual ...
Brocade is an industry leader in data center networking solutions and services that enable organizations to manage their most vital information assets.
Egenera?s breakthrough virtualization technology optimizes the use of network, compute and storage resources to enable the next-generation utility datacenter. The Company's Egenera BladeFrame system leads the industry in both server blade technology and virtualization software
Intel builds virtualization support into their processors (VT, VX-d for x86) and is developing a vPro management hypervisor.
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, interconnect products to world-class server, storage, and infrastructure OEMs servicing Fortune 500 data centers, the world's most powerful supercomputers, and mission critical embedded applications.
Neterion delivers 10 Gigabit Ethernet hardware & software solutions that solve customers' high-end networking problems.
Today, we're OnPATH Technologies - the industry's leader in virtualizing the infrastructure layer for complex, mission-critical IT environments.
SAVVIS has been an industry leader in developing and implementing virtual private networking, utility computing, storage and security solutions that leverage virtualization technology. With our help, you can begin migrating services to our virtualized infrastructure and begin realizing the cost-efficiencies, the scalability and...
Xsigo Systems has developed a revolutionary new approach to server I/O: the Xsigo I/O Director. This hardware and software solution is optimized from the ground up to dramatically accelerate and simplify routine data center management tasks. With the Xsigo I/O Director, IT managers provision I/O resources on-the-fly...
Management and Automation
Akorri BalancePoint analyzes, models and monitors application, server and storage performance in virtualized environments.
Our unique integration of hardware, software and embedded technologies provides a single interface to quickly and efficiently manage your IT infrastructure.
B-hive was recently acquired by VMware. B-hive Conductor continues to be available for sale, and will gradually be fully integrated into the VMware product line. VMware acquired B-hive to further enhance its virtualization platform with application performance management.
A monitoring tool that supports management of VMware and Xen virtual machines as well as Windows, Linux and MacOS native machines.
Being the only software company focused exclusively on data management puts CommVault in a decidedly exclusive category, but it's an incomplete definition.
DataSynapse is a world leader in dynamic application service management software for the always on, always responsive data center.
Configuresoft's Enterprise Configuration Management (ECM) offers an ECM for Virtualization module that discovers, assesses, manages and visualizes VMware hosts and VMs.
DynamicOps is a venture-funded Credit Suisse spinoff. They offer Virtual Resource Manager that provides VM lifecycle management, a self-service portal and compliance management.
eG is a global provider of performance monitoring and triage solutions for both virtual and physical IT infrastructures. The company's patented technologies provide proactive monitoring of every layer of every tier in the infrastructure, thereby enabling rapid diagnosis and recovery in enterprise and service provider networks.
Embotics; V-Commander software application is a centralized, policy-based VM Lifecycle Management and control system. Embotics is partnered with VMware, Citrix and Red Hat.
Enigmatec Execution Management System (EMS), is a policy-based automation solution. EMS combines IT process automation with policy-based control to allocate resources to the applications and users that need them in real-time. EMS monitors service levels to ensure business performance is on target.
Fortisphere Virtual Essentials is a tool for VM lifecycle management. Fortisphere tracks the origins, content, descendants, currency and interactions of VMs. Fortisphere has partnered with VMware, Citrix/XenSource and Red Hat.
Virtual Infrastructure Search and Analytics is Hyper9's innovative approach to the rapidly changing virtualization management space.
Icomasoft ag is a Swiss pioneer of agent-less software solutions that provide unprecedented transparency across your virtual and physical IT infrastructure in heterogeneous datacenters.
Insystek Virtualize IT discovers and manages VMware, Xen and Microsoft Virtual Server platforms.
Lanamark develops capacity planning software that enables value-added resellers, consultants and system integrators to deliver competitively-differentiated virtualization and IT assessments that help customers accelerate adoption of virtualization.
Leostream, a vendor-independent software company, is a driver in the evolving virtualization space and a leader in the management of end-user resources hosted in the data center. Our Connection Broker product provides a comprehensive and scalable solution for organizations to deliver and manage desktops...
Lxlabs HyperVM manages openVZ and Xen virtualization platforms.
ManageIQ Enterprise Virtualization Management Suite discovers and maintains VM configuration information, unique identification, genealogy, and relationship mapping. ManageIQ works with VMware and Citrix/XenSource.
newScale, Inc. is the leader in IT Service Catalog and Service Portfolio Management software solutions. With more than 1.5 million users in production, newScale is the only proven and safe choice for Global 2000 organizations worldwide. Every 20 seconds another user depends on a newScale Service Catalog...
Netuitive is the leading provider of self-learning performance management software. Netuitive?s patented, award-winning products replace human guesswork with automated mathematics and analysis to improve the performance of systems, business services and virtual infrastructures.
Nimsoft provides the NimBUS Service Level Management platform. The NimBUS for VMware Monitoring solution tracks application response times in VMware ESX Server VMs and monitors Vmware hosts and guests.
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
Opalis Integration Server provides ITIL-compliant data center automation. Opalis offers Integration Packs for Microsoft Virtual Server and VMware Infrastructure.
Platform Computing is a pioneer and the global leader in High Performance Computing (HPC) management software.
As the pioneer of virtual backup appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming data protection in virtual IT environments since 2006. Its award-winning data protection solution for virtual IT, esXpress, is used today by more than 1,500 enterprises worldwide to achieve unlimited dynamic growth...
Lead by security and virtualization veterans, Reflex Security is the recognized leader in virtualization management and security creating leading technology solutions for virtual infrastructure.
RTO Software, Inc. is an established provider of application-focused performance monitoring and management tools for any business-critical application in any Windows server environment.
Scense has 9 years of experience with the development and sales of user centric solutions for application delivery and desktop management.
Skytap is the leading provider of cloud infrastructure solutions available as on-demand services over the Web.
Based in Vienna, Virginia, privately held StackSafe provides software infrastructure testing solutions that enable IT Operations to significantly improve uptime and resiliency.
Surgient offers Virtual QA/Test Lab Management System (VQMS), which competes with VMware Lab Manager. VQMS works with VMware ESX Server or Microsoft Virtual Server. Surgient Virtual Training Lab Management System (VTMS) and Virtual Demo Lab Management System (VDMS) are also available.
TeamQuest Performance Software is a suite of four integrated products that help organizations optimize IT services, from performance management and reporting to event monitoring and capacity modeling. TeamQuest is supported on physical platforms and the following virtual environments: POWER Hypervisor...
Tek-Tools Profiler for VMware is an agentless monitoring and reporting tool that brings end-to-end visibility to your physical and virtual worlds from applications through servers, network, and storage. Profiler can address the needs of capacity planning and management, server consolidation, performance monitoring and reporting...
ToutVirtual VirtualIQ is a heterogeneous virtualization manager that works across VMware Server, VMware ESX Server, Microsoft Virtual Server, Novell Xen and XenSource platforms.
TriCerat targets a defined client base - the Network Administrators and end users who are invested in application delivery.
Tripwire is industry-recognized for its enterprise-level configuration control software.
We are big believers that Virtual Desktops are the next phase in the PC's evolution. This is where the individualized experience delivered by the PC meets the power of the cloud.
Veeam offers management products for VMware Infrastructure. Veeam Reporter, Monitor and Configurator work with VI3, but Veeam has announced they will support other hypervisors.
NxTop overcomes the challenges of a centralized virtual laptop and virtual desktop management system, providing a low-cost, easy-to-use, secure and flexible solution for IT managers and end-users.
Virtual Iron is a Xen-based product advertising very similar features to VMware Infrastructure 3. Virtual Iron features mirroring those in VI3: LiveMigration = VMotion; LiveCapacity = DRS; LiveRecovery = HA. Virtual Iron markets their products as matching VMware's for 1/5th fhe price.
VKernel is dedicated to developing best-of-breed virtual appliances that enhance performance, lower costs, and simplify management of virtual environments of all sizes.
VMLogix LabManager is a virtual test lab automation platform that competes with VMware Lab Manager.
vmSight was founded in 2007 and is the leader in end user experience assurance for virtual desktops and applications.
Migration and Conversion (P2V or V2P)
Based on award winning innovations, the Altor VF solves the problems of blind spots, uncontrollable inter-VM traffic, unprotected migration of VM.
Invirtus, along with Vizioncore, is owned by Quest Software. Vizioncore OEMs Invirtus products: the vConverter P2V tool; the vOptimizer virtual disk shrinker; and vPackager Windows VM encapsulation tool.
Incipient is a leading software developer of enterprise-class storage virtualization and automated data migration software solutions for SAN environments. Incipient's network storage virtualization software, called iNSP, runs on CISCO MDS9000 Series SAN switches and provides a common set of storage services.
HelperApps specialzies in migration of servers.
PlateSpin PowerConvert supports P2V for VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Iron and XenSource platforms. PlateSpin PowerRecon collects physical and virtual machine workload statistics to support server profiling, consolidation and chargeback.
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
OS and Cross-Platform Virtualization
BlueBear's sole corporate objective is to combine emerging technologies with our world-class technical expertise to develop cutting edge, customer-centric solutions.
iCore Software is an international software company with R&D center in Moscow, Russia. iCore Software was founded in 2007 by a group of students from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technologies (MIPT, Russia). Today iCore Software is a culmination of technical know-how and top business leadership, helping iCore...
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 800 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.
The leading BIOS vendor has announced plans to include a "HyperCore" hypervisor with their BIOS.
Red Hat includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and later operating systems.
Transitive QuickTransit is CPU emulation software that allows Sun SPARC software to run on Itanium and x86 Linux servers. Transitive is focused on the market for migrating legacy SPARC applications to newer platforms. QuickTransit can run in VMware and XenServer VMs.
VirtualLogix develops and markets VirtualLogix VLX, the partitioning and virtualization software platform that allows embedded systems to run heterogeneous operating systems and applications efficiently and safely.
Open Source Virtualization
Hyperic HQ for VMware monitors and controls VMware ESX Server and VMware Server hosts.
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
Qumranet is the proud sponsor, maintainer and catalyst behind the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, a global open source effort focused on integrating robust virtualization capabilities into the Linux kernel. The KVM virtualization solution has been officially included in Linux 2.6.20.
VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.
Xen is an open source hypervisor project. Work on Xen began at the University of Cambridge and Xen is now used as the platform hypervisor by Citrix/XenSource, Virtual Iron, Oracle VM, Sun xVM, Red Hat and Novell/SUSE.
Server Virtualization
Virtualization & Consolidation Solutions from Agilysys can help you to reduce power consumption, increase data center veracity, optimize expansion efforts and better allocate your system resources
BMC offers a portfolio of data center management software for managing applications, databases, infrastructure, operations, help desk, performance and security. BMC products support non-x86 virtualization. On x86, VMware is BMC's primary supported platform, but Microsoft Virtual Server is also supported.
Cassatt Active Response (formerly Cassatt Collage) technology pools physical and virtual server resources and uses policy-driven controls to power servers off when not needed, and on when they are. Cassatt provisions and manages VMware and Xen hosts and VMs.
CiRBA' Data Center Intelligence Software is designed to optimize co-location of compatible VMs when doing server consolidation. CiRBA visually maps optimal consolidation, virtualization or migration outcomes with a unique colored grid presentation. CiRBA supports VMware VI3, Microsoft Virtual Server, Unix partitions and...
Citrix completed acquisition of XenSource, the primary commercial maintainer of the Xen open source hypervisor in October 2007. The XenServer family of Xen-based virtualization products now joins Citrix's application delivery product line.
Emulex makes server storage and network adapters. Emulex NPIV support, (called "LightPulse") lets independently access SAN storage. Emulex has announced LightPulse support for Microsoft and Oracle virtualization. Emulex VMPilot is software for managing NPIV VM storage connections with Microsoft Virtual..
Enspeed provides a whole VM Lifecycle Management and GUI configuration solution.
F5 Acopia intelligent file virtualization solutions help businesses efficiently manage the growth, complexity and cost of unstructured file-based information.
GlassHouse Technologies, Inc. is the leading independent consulting firm with proven experience transforming IT infrastructure. Founded in 2001 by storage and professional services experts who saw a need to think strategically about managing data...
Hitachi Virtage is embedded, bare-metal virtualization for their Intanium and x86 BladeSymphony servers. Virtage support for Hitachi x86 blades is scheduled for release in Q1 2008.
HP pre-installs, sells and support VMware infrastructure on their x86 servers. HP Integrity VM is a bare-metal hypervisor for their Itanium-based servers.
IBM sells and supports VMware Infrastructure for their x86 servers. IBM also provides z/VM virtualization for mainframe systems and virtualization for their P-series servers.
Microsoft currently offers three hosted virtualization products: Virtual PC for Mac; Virtual PC 2007; and Virtual Server 2005 R2. Microsoft is developing a bare-metal hypervisor called Hyper-V (codename: Viridian) that will be bundled with Windows Server 2008. Hyper-V is expected to be generally available in mid-2008.
Novell includes the Xen open source hypervisor with their SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and later operating systems. Novell Zen Orchestrator can manage SLES Xen hosts and VMware Infrastructure hosts.
Pivot3 Serverless Computing is the industry's first solution to offer virtual servers hosted inside an IP SAN. With integrated server virtualization, each Pivot3 appliance can host server applications that have access to the underlying IP SAN., and can be managed with standard VMware tools.
Founded in 2004, RingCube Technologies, Inc. has 24 virtualization patents pending demonstrating its unique technology development. The company is venture- backed by New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and is based in Mountain View, California.
ScaleMP relaunched in April 2008 with a technology called vSMP Foundation that creates virtual machines that span multiple physical hosts. The technology looks similar to Virtual Iron's first incarnation, which was abandoned in favor of a Xen foundation. Up to 128 cores and 1TB of memory can be aggregated.
Stratus Technologies ftServer systems use hardware redundancy to provide fault tolerance and 99.999% uptime. Stratus is certified with VI3. Upcoming VMware FT features will place us in more direct competition with Stratus.
Sun Microsystems sells and supports VMware Infrastructure on their x86 servers. Sun also offers Solaris Containers for OS-level virtualization on x86 and SPARC platforms. Sun will roll out their xVM implementation of Xen for their systems in 2008.
Symantec Solutions for Virtualization enable organizations to take full advantage of server and endpoint virtualization while preserving best practices for efficiency and cost savings from their physical environment.
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers...
Xsigo I/O Director is an I/O virtualization hardware product that aggregates networking and storage traffic from x86 servers onto a single 10G Ethernet connection. Xsigo reduces cabling requirements for servers and allows software-based configuration of server connectivity. Xsigo is a VMware TAP partner.
Vizioncore offers a suite of utilities that enhance VMware ESX Server: vRanger, vReplicator, vCharter, vOptimizer, vConverter, vMigrator, vPackager. Vizioncore announced in Sept. 2007 that they would add support for competing hypervisors and...
Storage Virtualization
3PAR is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of next-generation storage arrays built for utility computing.
Compellent is a leading provider of enterprise-class network storage solutions that are highly scalable, feature rich and designed to be easy to use and cost effective.
CORAID's EtherDrive®, the affordable network storage, provides fast SAN solutions boasting Fibre Channel speeds at Ethernet prices. Recently named among ?Linux Magazine's Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2009?, CORAID designs and manufactures innovative, affordable network storage appliances based on...
DataCore Software is a leading, independent software vendor specializing in storage virtualization, storage management and storage networking. DataCore delivers flexible and affordable storage software foundations for Total Enterprise Virtualization.
Dell is reinventing the way the world uses information technology, and how we demonstrate our commitment to responsible and sustainable business practices.
Exanet allows you to forget about storage and focus on your business. Our clustered NAS solutions leverage the latest processing and virtualization technology, facilitating easily scalable growth and low cost of ownership.
FalconStor Software leads the way in developing innovative and TOTALLY Open Data Protection solutions designed to optimize the storage, protection, and availability of critical business data and applications.
Incipient is a leading software developer of enterprise-class storage virtualization and automated data migration software solutions for SAN environments.
At LeftHand Networks we deliver physical and virtual SANs that are easy to grow, easy to manage and designed to perform optimally in today's global data centers.
NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that help our customers accelerate business breakthroughs and achieve outstanding cost efficiency.
The Onaro SANscreen suite is datacenter storage automation software. Onaro's VM Insight module helps with VMware server consolidation by mapping and monitoring VM storage and CPU requirements. NetApp announced its intention to acquire Onaro on January 3, 2008.
StoneFly Inc. headquartered in San Diego, was founded in April 2000 to deliver upon the vision of simple and affordable storage optimization and disaster recovery protection through IP storage area network (IP SAN) solutions.
Symantec Solutions for Virtualization enable organizations to take full advantage of server and endpoint virtualization while preserving best practices for efficiency and cost savings from their physical environment.
Xiotech Corporation, an innovator in data storage and protection solutions, is delivering a new foundation for storage with unprecedented reliability, performance, and scalability.
Virtualization Security
Blue Lane VirtualShield is a security firewall in a virtual appliance VM that protects other VMs on ESX Server. Blue Lane exclusively supports VMware platforms for now.
Catbird V-Agent is a security firewall virtual appliance VM. V-Agent monitors virtual and physical networks. V-Agent is supported on VMware Player, VMware Server and ESX Server.
McAfee proactively secures systems and networks from known and as yet undiscovered threats worldwide.
Trusted Identity and Access Management specialist PortWise, provides a comprehensive, integrated and secure software platform protecting the integrity of employee, partner, or consumer interactions with corporate applications and data across the internet.
Proofpoint provides unified email security and data loss prevention solutions for enterprises, universities, government organizations and ISPs to defend against inbound threats such as spam and viruses, prevent leaks of confidential and private information across all protocols, encrypt sensitive emails and analyze messaging..
Reflex Systems helps organizations accelerate adoption of next generation virtualized data centers by addressing potential challenges, such as monitoring the dynamic environment, maintaining secure configuration, cross-functional management, and regulatory compliance while capitalizing on the virtualization investment...
SAVVIS has been an industry leader in developing and implementing virtual private networking, utility computing, storage and security solutions that leverage virtualization technology. With our help, you can begin migrating services to our virtualized infrastructure and begin realizing the cost-efficiencies, the scalability and...
SpamTitan allows you create a Email Security Appliance for your Gateway. SpamTitan is a complete solution to email security offering protection from Spam, Viruses, Trojans, Phishing and unwanted content.
Trend Micro is a global leader with over two decades of expertise in endpoint, messaging and Web security. InterScan Web Security Virtual Appliance applies real-time web reputation, flexible content scanning and powerful URL filtering.
Tresys Technology was founded on the premise of solving the most complex security challenges with innovation of advanced security technologies for more practical use.
Deliver peace of mind to IT managers and home users around the globe through breakthrough virtualization technology, finally solving the conflict between usability and security.
