eG Innovations, the award-winning provider of intelligent service performance management solutions for physical, virtualized and cloud environments, announced that it has joined the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium of companies committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

"We are very pleased to welcome eG Innovations into the Open Virtualization Alliance," said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business Unit at Red Hat and a founding member of the Open Virtualization Alliance. "The support for the Open Virtualization Alliance from industry leaders and innovators shows the widespread interest in KVM as an open virtualization alternative. KVM delivers leading performance, scalability and security, making it a compelling alternative to proprietary virtualization technologies."

Founded by technology leaders like Red Hat, HP, IBM, and Intel, the goal of the alliance is to provide education, best practices and technical advice to help businesses understand and evaluate their virtualization options, including open source alternatives such as KVM.

"eG Innovations is very excited to join the Open Virtualization Alliance and support the Kernel Virtual Machine technology," said Srinivas Ramanathan, founder and CEO of eG Innovations. "Customers expect choices for how they architect and deploy virtualization and cloud environments. To enable this choice, eG Innovations is focused on bringing total performance visibility to all the popular virtualization platforms. eG Innovations' broad support for seven hypervisors today is testimony to our commitment in this area. Irrespective of which hypervisor customers use, they can rely on eG Enterprise solutions to maximize service performance and user productivity, and thereby deliver on the ROI promise of transformational IT initiatives."