How important is virtualization to commercial UNIX customers?
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Commercial UNIX customers use UNIX because it works for their mission-critical services but virtualization isn’t one of them.
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The answer is ‘not very’ according to an annual survey performed by the Gabriel Consulting Group titled, “Is Commercial Unix Relevant in the Midmarket.” In fact, virtualization capability ranks 9th out of nine deciding factors when selecting commercial UNIX in the survey. Sure, attributes such as availability, stability, operating system quality, predictable performance, vendor support, ease of administration, price, familiarity are all important but ninth is pretty far down the list. But, I think I know why it ranks as low as it does. The answer is that virtualization just isn’t one of the required capabilities on commercial UNIX. Full Story |
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