Today, most virtualization management applications are either built on top of yesterday’s physical server management technology or designed to mimic VMware VirtualCenter. But, according to Hyper9's CTO, Dave McCrory, "Neither approach will work in the long run." Virtualization management software, says McCrory, is better off being designed from the ground up rather than simply trying to retrofit a dynamic environment into a static management application.

McCrory will be widening and deepening his explanation at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference  Expo, to be held inSan Jose, CA, on November 20-12, 2008.

He will discuss the technologies and events that are transforming homogenous virtual environments into heterogeneous virtual environments as well as what must change with virtual management software in order to tame heterogeneous virtual environments.

"80 percent of today’s virtualized environments run on VMware technology," McCrory notes. "However, that landscape will shift over the next 12 to 18 months as more powerful processors, competing hypervisors, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and cloud computing take hold."

He continues:

"With more products aimed at more market segments, the hypervisor market will shift. European governments, which are mandated to use open source products, will adopt the Xen hypervisor. Microsoft-reliant SMBs will stay with Hyper-V; while enterprise IT will continue to embrace VMware. Many organizations will find themselves managing a combination of all three. Cloud computing will abstract these heterogeneous virtual environments even further."

McCrory has been working with virtualization technology for nearly a decade, including the VMware ESX Server and Microsoft Virtual Server since Alpha states. At Hyper9, he is responsible for developing the business and technical strategy as the company prepares to deliver tomorrow’s virtualization management software.