KVM can help provide protection from the sting of increasingly expensive virtualization licensing costs especially for Linux and mixed workload environments, writes David Hsu, program director, WW IBM Linux and KVM Marketing. He offers a pricing analysis of the KVM stack compared to its competitors (i.e., VMware and Microsoft) in a new blog:
Whether you’re just testing the waters or have already dove head first into server virtualization, cost reduction continues to be a primary driver of data center optimization. Although virtualization is helping to reduce capital expenses, IT managers are getting stung with increasingly expensive virtualization software licensing costs. Read on.