KVM oferece vantagens exclusivas para empresas que procuram uma alternativa aberta para a construção de Clouds e implementações em mercados emergentes onde o custo e a possibilidade de usar uma solução flexivel sem ficar preso a um fornecedor especifico são critérios fundamentais na escolha de uma solução de virtualização. Com essas vantagens oferecidas pelo KVM, a Open Virtualization Alliance ganhou novo impulso com a adesão de empresas de tecnologia focadas em mercados emergentes e de Cloud Computing.

Mais de 50% dos participantes da Open Virtualization Alliance são voltados para Cloud Computing sendo que virtualização é um componente chave de todas as nuvens.Eficiência, flexibilidade e confiabilidade são os principais atributos que os fornecedores de cloud precisam entregar aos seus clientes. Através do apoio ao KVM, empresas de Cloud podem reduzir custos, aumentar a densidade de máquinas virtuais, melhorar o desempenho, aumentar a segurança e implantar nuvens altamente escaláveis e confiáveis.

A adesão à Open Virtualization Alliance também está crescendo entre empresas em novas regiões do mundo incluindo a Ásia e América Latina. Empresas em mercados emergentes precisam ser capazes de escalar suas operações com investimento mínimo. A rápida adoção do Linux e outras tecnologias de código aberto nos mercados emergentes, o baixo custo, alta qualidade e maior liberdade de escolha proporcionadas pela Open Virtualization e pelo KVM permitem que as empresas de tecnologia do Brasil ao Japão ajudem seus clientes a virtualizar e otimizar sua infra-estrutura.

"O grande crescimento na adesão à Open Virtualization Alliance é um sinal muito encorajador do interesse e do potencial do KVM em mercados emergentes e nuvens, onde a open virtualization está preparada para ser a principal tecnologia. Mais de 200 membros em três meses é um rítmo rápido e constrói uma base sólida para uma alinça robusta", diz Gary Chen - Gerente de Pesquisa da Enterprise Virtualization Software na IDC. "Com uma base sólida e em crescimento será interessante ver que tipo de influência a aliança pode gerar num futuro próximo para promover o KVM."

"Temos trabalhado em estreita colaboração com a Autonomic Resources - membro da Open Virtualization Alliance - para criar uma plataforma análitica de negócios usando uma combinação de tecnologias Open Source de nuvem e virtualização," diz James Ellis, diretor do Escritório de Apoio à Pesquisa e Gerenciamento da Agência de Dados sobre Energia dos Estados Unidos (US Energy Information Administration). "Com essa solução, estamos reduzindo custos, aumentando recursos tecnológicos, introduzindo computação baseada em padrões e caminhando ao nosso objetivo de alcançar a política de Cloud First. Com o KVM como base de nossa plataforma, nós estamos atingindo novos níveis de performance e escalabilidade para nossos sistemas."

Mais de 200 empresas de tecnologia se associaram à Open Virtualization Alliance no total, atingindo um crescimento de mais de 20 vezes o número de participantes desde o seu lançamento há 3 meses.

No seu lançamento em Maio de 2011, os membros fundadores da Open Virtualization Alliance são:

• BMC Software
• Eucalyptus Systems
• HP
• IBM
• Intel
• Red Hat
• SUSE

O consórcio anunciou a adesão de 65 membros em Junho de 2011 e hoje baseia-se nessa sociedade em rápida expansão com a adição de 134 novos membros, incluindo: 6WIND, AccelOps, Acronis, ACT750, aiCache, Aleux, ALOG Datacenters do Brasil, Alphinat, Altern-IT, Appnovation, AppZero, Authernative, Avere, Bacula Systems, Balidea, Bloombase, Bobcares, Broadcom, CA Technologies, Canonical, Centec Networks, Chelsio, CiRBA, ClassCat Co., Ltd., CloudPassage, CloudRows, CloudShare, Cloudsoft Corporation, Cloudspace, Colfax International, ComputeNext, Coraid, CoreDial, LLC, coreFusion, CumuLogic, Cybera, DataStax, DCH LLC, Defcon-IT, Dyn, Eaton, ElasticHosts, ElasticStack, Emulex, Endace, Ennoia Systems, Exelanz, Exetra ICT, FOSS-Group GmbH, Fujitsu, Guida Advisory, HelpSystems, Hitachi, Hitachi Data Systems, Igelamerica, Infosim, InfraStacks, LLC, Interface Masters Technologies, IPe, iSencia, IT Linux, Jambu, Jaspersoft, Jinfonet Software, Jinny Software, Joyent, JW Electronic Co. Ltd., K35, Kamp.de, Leading Edge, Linbit, LinuxIT, m2mi, Mamatec, Manage Operations MO, ManageIQ, Mellanox Technologies LTD., Midokura, MiTAC International Corp., MKNOD, NEC, Neebula, NetApp, Net Direct Systems, NetView, Netweb Technologies, Nexenta, NoLogin, Nubefy, Obsidian Systems, OnApp, op5 AB, OpenCrowd, OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA), Persistent Systems, Platform Computing, PLX Technology, Pragmatech Solutions Inc., Puppet Labs, QLogic, QNAP, Quest Software, Radware, RAID Inc., Raima, ReasonNet b.v., Savant Tecnologia da Informação, ScaleMP, ScaleXtreme, SecludIT, Securelinx, Silicom, Silver Peak Systems, SkyLinux, Soporte Libre, Sourcefire, Splunk, StreamWIDE, Sublime IP, Summan, System Fabric Works, Texas Memory Systems, Tripwire, Unitrends, VaraLogix, Virtensys, Virtual Open Systems, Vision Solutions, Vizuri, VKernel, WiKID Systems, Inc., Xsigo and Zenoss.

Um de seus objetivos é promover o desenvolvimento das melhores práticas em torno KVM, o trabalho começou entre os membros da Open Virtualization Alliance para criar e publicar documentação específica para o KVM. Através de uma chamada para trabalhos da Open Virtualization Alliance, os membros podem apresentar documentos para melhores práticas, desempenho e otimização de recursos, dicas e truques, whitepapers, estudos de caso e resumos de solução.

KVM também está estabelecendo uma trilha com os principais resultados de desempenho de virtualização. Por exemplo, dos dezessete resultados de benchmark SPECvirt 2010 publicados em http://www.spec.org, dez foram alcançados usando a tecnologia KVM, incluindo a referência mais alta performance e maior número de máquinas virtuais performáticas rodando em um único host.

Para mais informações sobre a Open Virtualization Alliance e seus membros, visite a página em inglês www.openvirtualizationalliance.org.

Para mais informações sobre como se juntar à Open Virtualization Alliance, visite http://www.openvirtualizationalliance.org/contact/.

A missão da Open Virtualization Alliance é promover a adoção do KVM como uma alternativa aberta de virtualização, acelerar o crescimento de um ecosistema de soluções usando KVM, aumentar o reconhecimento e compreensão do KVM, incentivar a interoperabilidade, promover as melhores práticas e apresentar exemplos de sucesso em clientes. Membros fundadores da Open Virtualization Alliance são BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems, HP, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Inc. e SUSE.

"6WIND is delighted to join the Open Virtualization Alliance. Our high-performance packet processing software enables cloud equipment OEMs and service providers to optimize their ROI by dynamically provisioning networking resources as virtualized applications, while ensuring seamless scalability in line with end-user demands."
– Eric Carmès, CEO, 6WIND

"Bacula Systems is passionate about the Open Virtualization Alliance; Bacula Systems' highly scalable open source backup and restore solution is truly open source, and the OVA's ideals of open virtualization as an alternative to proprietary solutions closely match those of Bacula Systems."
– Aristide Caraccio, VP Sales & Marketing Worldwide, Bacula Systems

"Both OVA and jclouds promote choice in cloud computing environments. Cloudsoft's professional open source support for jclouds furthers the goal of OVA, enabling portable control of KVM-powered clouds like Eucalyptus and CloudSigma."
– Adrian Cole, Founder, jclouds and Chief Evangelist, Cloudsoft

"By being one of the first full Java PaaS providers for the federated cloud, CumuLogic is pleased to be part of the Open Virtual Alliance, to help accelerate the adoption of open virtualization technologies like KVM. We support KVM-based solutions to help lower overall cost, facilitate a faster time to market and provide customers with choice. We look forward to working with the OVA and their impressive list of members."
– Rajesh Ramchandani, Founder and VP of Products, CumuLogic

"The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) has quickly gained a huge following. At Eucalyptus Systems, we are seeing KVM use grow among users who want to avoid lock-in with an open source cloud platform."
– Marten Mickos, CEO, Eucalyptus Systems

"As a leading open source company, Jaspersoft has become the provider of the world's most widely deployed business intelligence software. We believe that open source will power the New IT Stack, from virtualization through the application layers. The goals of the Open Virtualization Alliance align well with Jaspersoft's mission and so we are proud to be an active member."
– Karl Van den Bergh, Vice President, Product & Alliances, Jaspersoft Corporation

"Jinfonet is thrilled to join the OVA. This opportunity has come at a strategic time with JReport's expanding cloud support. We're glad to enhance our offerings by presenting customers with the flexibility to use JReport conventionally or in a virtualized environment."
– Dr. Bing Yao, President, Jinfonet Software

"Joining the OVA demonstrates our unwavering support for the open source community, and our commitment to provide the most efficient connectivity solutions for virtualized data centers and cloud applications. We believe the joint collaboration will bring on a new era of innovative technological advances and best practices that will enable the most efficient solutions to complex networking issues faced by our customers."
– Motti Beck, Director of Marketing, Mellanox Technologies

"NDS is looking forward to being a part of the Open Virtualization Alliance. This partnership not only promotes the industry to stay connected, but allows us to move forward with driven systems like Kernel Virtual Machine that we rely on and support. KVM is essential in the services we provide, and we are excited to embark on a propelling movement with the Open Virtualization Alliance."
– Phil Santoni, President, Net Direct Systems

"Nubefy is proud to be a member of the Open Virtualization Alliance. As our offering spans across the cloud computing industry, we hope that our work in collaboration with other members of this alliance, will allow us to provide guidance to introducing management standards to address the complexity of managing multi-vendor virtualized environments."
– Eric Meyer, CEO, Nubefy

"OnApp is delighted to become a member of OVA. OnApp Cloud has supported KVM since version 2.1. KVM is where the momentum lies for cloud hosts in terms of development, and it's where we see the richest set of virtualization features our customers depend on – such as pass-through technologies, and the ability to over-subscribe resources."
– Roger Nolan, Chief Technology Officer, OnApp

"Platform Computing's mission is to support openness and choice for our customer cloud and grid environments across physical, virtual and cloud resources. The mission of the Open Virtualization Alliance is highly aligned with our vision for the future of distributed computing and we look forward to continuing the adoption of KVM."
– Jay Muelhoefer, VP, Marketing, Platform Computing

"PLX Technology strives to develop the highest performance, lowest power connectivity solutions for enterprise data centers and open source KVM is especially important in our newest designs. Our PCI Express and 10 Gigabit Ethernet silicon devices are backed by powerful value-added software where full virtualization solutions are vital."
– David Raun, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, PLX

"Virtualized infrastructures are being widely adopted as organizations seek the benefits of server consolidation as well as the ability to deploy applications with greater efficiency and speed. QLogic's market-leading Fibre Channel and Converged Network adapters are optimized for all major I/O virtualization standards, helping enterprises reduce total cost of ownership while increasing flexibility. As a member of the Open Virtualization Alliance, QLogic is working with key members of this ecosystem to deliver open source virtualization technologies that exploit the strengths of the new KVM standard in the marketplace."
– Satish Lakshmanan, Senior Director of Marketing, Host Solutions Group, QLogic

"Virtual Open Systems aims an effective embedded virtualization support for System-on-Chip, leading the open source KVM development for the new generation of ARM Cortex-A15 SoCs. As a supporting member of the Open Virtualization Alliance, the company plays an important role for a KVM wide potential recognition. In addition Virtual Open Systems is a partner of the Virtical European collaborative project, on virtualization heterogeneous multi-core embedded systems, supported by the European Commission."
– Daniel Raho, CEO, Virtual Open Systems

"Being a member of the Open Virtualization Alliance supports VKernel's mission to provide heterogeneous virtualization management. Given the continued proliferation of virtualization and the evolving dynamics around pricing and licensing, we are seeing a dramatic increase in customer interest in multi-hypervisor environments and a specific interest in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization."
– Bryan Semple, Chief Marketing Officer, VKernel