Maritz meanwhile, is trying his best to sound unconcerned. But for most organizations today, VMware's is the right strategy to pursue." "There will be some very Microsoft-orientated shops that will say, we like the Microsoft vision, we want to go down that track. But it's going to happen."īut McIsaac still has his bets on VMware. "Maybe it will take two years, maybe five years. "Microsoft will have a full platform for virtualization," he said. At that level of enterprise-class infrastructure, when you're talking blade servers and fiber channel storage arrays and iSCSI products, really the software is not that expensive."īeloussov expects Microsoft to gain ground on VMware over time.
"But for enterprise clients, clients that are looking for the best level of support, redundancy and maintenance, VMware have definitely got it.
Hyper-V will have its uses in smaller organizations that can't afford enterprise-class storage systems and blade servers and the like," he continues. "For a lot of smaller players, VMware will be out of their reach, whereas Microsoft Hyper-V will be in reach. "The two will have an interesting battle space," Tran agreed. For that reason, he expects VMware to continue to appeal to the upper end of the market: service providers and large businesses, while Microsoft's price proposition will appeal to smaller businesses. "It's not as proven to be robust, not as proven to be as scalable, it doesn't have live migration," he said. McIsaac says on a feature-function basis, Microsoft's hypervisor "does not compare" with the market leaders. "Our experience so far has been that customers are generating so much value for customers that price is not a major objection in our sales cycle," he says. Bogomil Balkansky, senior director of product marketing at VMware, says most VMware customers see a return on investment within six to nine months.
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