At LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe in Edinburgh, The Linux Foundation announced that the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project. The OVA was originally founded 2 years ago to help advance adoption of the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor by providing education, best practices and technical advice to organizations. Since then, KVM has become one of the fastest growing virtualization technologies with 50% growth in deployments last year, according to IDC. As a core component of the Linux kernel, KVM has grown in popularity among businesses and open source communities such as OpenStack in just the last couple of years.
“While hosting code and providing open source governance best practices is a big part of what we offer, we’re also happy to provide guidance to organizations that want to reduce operating costs, maximize promotional reach and increase participation among diverse stakeholders,” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “The Open Virtualization Alliance is a natural addition to our Collaborative Projects and we’re very happy to support all virtualization technologies that help advance Linux.”
More than 250 companies are members of OVA and will contribute to and guide the Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Governing board members include HP, IBM, Intel Corporation, NetApp and Red Hat.
For more perspective on the announcement, read a blog by Scott Firth, Director, Marketing, Software Defined Environment, IBM, and OVA Board Member, titled, “OVA Joins the Linux Foundation as a Collaborative Project.”