OPEN source solutions provider Red Hat Inc. (RHT) announced recently the general availability of a new version of its enterprise virtualization solution as Ciena Corp. cites the status of virtualization in the Asia-Pacific region.
The release by RHT of the new version of its virtualization solution comes as almost two-thirds (64 percent) of enterprises in 14 markets across the Asia Pacific region are at some stage of deployment of virtualized network functions, from initial planning to final integration and testing, Ciena said citing a commissioned Asia/Pacific Wide-Area Network (WAN) and Communications study. The Ciena study also revealed that roughly 30 percent of organizations in the
region are implementing or running software-defined networking (SDN) functionality to improve network agility, speed and programmability. The survey found this adoption rate was driven by rapid economic growth and business expansion, an increasingly mobile work force and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Currently, Malaysia, Korea and Thailand were the most advanced markets in network function virtualization (NFV) deployment, according to the survey. In these markets, 93 percent, 91 percent and 90 percent of enterprises, respectively, were either in the early stages of planning and analysis, or in the more advanced stages of strategy, technology evaluation, lab evaluations, demos, trials, proofs of concept, integration or testing phases. The survey also found that businesses in markets such as the Philippines, Japan, Singapore and Indonesia will drive the second wave of NFV deployment in the region.
According to RHT, its new version of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)-based virtualization solution offers “increased performance, scale and security for high-intensity Linux workloads.” KVM is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel that turns it into a hypervisor.
The new version, RHT said in a statement, “also updates user experience and management tools to help reduce cost and time of VMware migrations by eliminating the need to purchase a third-party migration tool.”