IBM Launches KVM Center of Excellence for Wall Street

IBM is spearheading the development and adoption of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) for financial services firms. On May 2, IBM will launch the KVM Center of Excellence for Wall Street located in New York City with a grand opening event for IBM clients and business partners in the financial services industry.  This center will act as the hub for KVM-related trainings, client and partner briefings and thought leadership.  

The KVM Center of Excellence in New York is the second such center established by IBM. The first was opened in November in Beijing. 

KVM is an alternative to proprietary virtualization software and can help companies realize significant cost savings and avoid vendor lock-in. According to data from IDC, the worldwide virtual-machine software market was on track to grow to over $3.6 billion in 2012, up from $3.0 billion the year before, a 19.3% year-over-year growth. KVM is growing at 150% year over year in terms of unit shipments, with over 100,000 servers already using it worldwide for virtualization.

The KVM Center of Excellence is part of the IBM Wall Street Center of Excellence, which focuses on low latency and high performance technologies for financial markets clients. For additional information or to register for the grand opening event, email mailto:hsud@us.ibm.com