Red Hat Positioned in the Visionaries Quadrant of Gartner's 2016 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure
Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute
RALEIGH, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced that Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization has
been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the
August 2016 x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.
With Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, companies around the world are
building a foundation for future technologies while integrating with
existing technologies with an open, scalable, and high-performance
virtualization infrastructure.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrants are based on rigorous analysis of a vendor’s
completeness of vision and ability to execute. According to Gartner,
“About 80% of x86 server workloads are virtualized, but virtualization
technologies are becoming more lightweight, supporting more workloads
and agile development. Price, modernization and specific use cases are
driving enterprises to deploy different, and often multiple,
virtualization technologies.”
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is an open infrastructure and
management platform for servers and workstations with robust security
capabilities. It is built on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Kernel-based
Virtual Machine (KVM) technologies and enables customers to virtualize
both traditional and cloud-native applications. Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization is the open alternative. It offers a high-performing,
fault-tolerant, and more secure platform for mission-critical,
virtualized Linux and Windows environments. Red Hat reduces the cost and
complexity of proprietary virtual machines (VM) through improved
economics, interoperability, and agility of virtualization. Backed by
Red Hat’s certified ecosystem of software and hardware partners, Red Hat
Enterprise Virtualization offers unparalleled performance, scale, and
flexibility to support a broad range of critical workloads.
Supporting Quote
Gunnar Hellekson, director of product management, Linux and
Virtualization, Red Hat
"Many enterprises are looking for an
open alternative to proprietary virtualization solutions to obtain
better efficiencies and interoperability, and to bridge their
traditional infrastructure to cloud-native workloads using OpenStack or
other platforms. As the only company included in the Visionaries
quadrant, we believe Red Hat’s Magic Quadrant position reinforces our
continued innovation, momentum and strong vision for an open,
high-performance virtualization alternative.”
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