Convirture Corp. has become the newest member of Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA), a consortium that strives to increase the adoption of open virtualization technologies.

Convirture is the provider of ConVirt – an enterprise-grade management tool for virtualized data centers and private clouds which is based on the open source hypervisors including Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM). ConVirt is based on open source available in a free version, ConVirt 2.0 Open Source (News - Alert) and ConVirt 2.0 Enterprise. The latter provides advanced automation and scalability features. Convirture helps organizations manage open source virtualization platforms.

Arsalan Farooq, CEO of Convirture said in a release, “The Open Virtualization Alliance is absolutely the right organization at the right time, as KVM comes into its own as a viable alternative to closed and expensive virtualization products from the likes of VMware and Citrix.”

“As a company, we have been committed to delivering enterprise-capable open source virtualization management since our inception and we are thrilled to be teaming with other leading technology firms to deliver the choice and functionality that open source virtualization offers,” Farooq added.

The Open Virtualization Alliance promotes the adoption of KVM as an open virtualization alternative. It tries to increase overall awareness and understanding of KVM, encourage interoperability, promote best practices and highlight examples of customer successes.

The alliance was founded by BMC Software, Eucalyptus Systems (News - Alert), HP, IBM, Intel Red Hat, Inc. and SUSE, revealed officials.

“We are very pleased to welcome Convirture into the Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA),” said Scott Crenshaw, vice president and general manager, Cloud Business at Red Hat (News - Alert) and a founding member of the Open Virtualization Alliance.

The huge support for the Open Virtualization Alliance provided by industry leaders and innovators is indicative of the huge demand for KVM as the open virtualization alternative. KVM provides optimum performance, scalability and security, and is hence a suitable alternative to proprietary virtualization technologies, Crenshaw pointed out.

The Open Virtualization Alliance recently announced broad industry support and adoption with the addition of 65 new members to the consortium. The consortium has achieved nearly 10-fold growth in membership since its establishment just one month ago with members across a wide spectrum of hardware, software, services and cloud computing businesses.

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