October 25, 2006 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – SWsoft’s (http://www.swsoft.com) virtualization technology is the fastest growing in a fast growing industry, the company announced this week.
Quoting industry analyst firm IDC, SWsoft suggested the worldwide industry sales of virtualization software experienced a 67 percent growth rate from 2004 to 2005 with revenues topping $560 million. The virtualization market is expected to grow to $15 billion by 2009 and Virtuozzo is growing fastest among all vendors.
"Our sales momentum is a reflection of our highly-efficient operating system-level Virtuozzo technology, along with its management capabilities for physical servers and virtual environments," explained CEO of SWsoft Serguei Beloussov. "We will enhance those with management and automation tools that will allow customers to further maximize the benefits gained through virtualized resources."
"Overall, IDC views virtual machines as a foundational technology to the dynamic IT," added John Humphreys, Program Director with IDC's Enterprise Platform Group. "Virtualization, which decouples the application from the underlying hardware, allows the customer to create service oriented infrastructure whereby they can begin to manage services and employ policy-based automation to manage and deliver the underlying infrastructure."
With more than 10,000 customers in over 100 countries, SWsoft is recognized as one of the leaders in server automation and virtualization software. SWsoft Virtuozzo operating system (OS)-level server virtualization technology allows a single Linux or Windows OS to be partitioned into virtual environments. The technology also addresses the challenge of “operating systems sprawl” where a number of different operating systems require support, maintenance and updating.
