Open Virtualization Alliance signs-up 200 members

RALEIGH, USA: Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) announced that over 200 technology companies have joined the OVA in total, delivering over a 20-fold growth in members since its launch three months ago.

At its launch in May 2011, the OVA founding members included BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat and SUSE. The consortium announced the addition of 65 members in June 2011 and now added 134 new members, including: CA Technologies, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, NetApp, QLogic, QNAP, Quest Software, Radware etc.

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The Open Virtualization Alliance, a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies, including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM),

OVA membership is also growing significantly among companies in new global regions, including Asia Pacific and Latin America.

"The tremendous growth in OVA membership is a very encouraging sign of the interest and potential for KVM in emerging markets and in the cloud, where open virtualization is poised to be a key technology. Over 200 members in three months is a rapid pace and really builds a solid foundation for a robust alliance," said Gary Chen, research manager, Enterprise Virtualization Software at IDC. "With such a solid, and still growing, member base, it will be interesting to see what kind of output and influence the alliance can generate in the near future to promote KVM."

With one of its goals to foster the development of best practices around KVM, work has begun amongst participating members of the Open Virtualization Alliance to create and publish KVM-specific documentation.