Amazon is a big boon for Xen

I am working with a startup which is pitching a Xen based solution to enterprises and telco’s. In the past years it was difficult to answer the question whether Xen was as good as vmware. This startup answers this questions by saying “It is good enough for Amazon”. 9 times out of 10 that silences most of the critics in the room. This will only get easier.

Symantec is also embedding Xen with their volume manager and storage products to create a competitor to virtual infrastructure.  It is also rumored that Xen should do 10s of million kind of revenue this year for Citrix. Which is small compared to vmware, but a 10-20 fold increase over last year.  The rate of change is more interesting.