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 A 
NEW PLAYER ENTERS THE EMPTY 
OS
VIRTUALIZATION MARKET
 
Posted by Alessandro Perilli | Monday, December 29, 2008
http://icoresoftware.com/  The evolution of the virtualization industry in the last five years clarified howthe market prefers hardware virtualization over any other kind of approach.Application virtualization certainly is the next big step towards a “liquid” datacenter, but so far it’s still far away from the mainstream adoption.The third platform virtualization technique that we track at virtualization.info,something we called for a long time
OS partitioning
, is the
OSvirtualization
.As our Virtualization Industry Radar highlights the only commercial players inthis segment are
Sun
and
Parallels
(formerly SWsoft).But the Sun presence in this space is very limited: its Solaris Containers (akaZones) are available only for Solaris 10 and while the product became veryflexible in the last two years, it’s clear that the company is moving itsinvestments on hardware virtualization.
This makes Parallels the uncontested leader in this market
.The company, not worried by competition, had the opportunity to grow in theprofitable niche of web hosting where hardware virtualization was not the bestoption.
Why no other vendor ever tried to develop and sell OS virtualization?
 Even Microsoft publicly disclosed its interest for this technology in 2006 butnever translated it into a real action.Whatever the reason is, things may be changing as a new player emerges fromthe stealth mode: iCore Software.The company was co-founded in 2007 by by a group of students from MoscowInstitute of Physics and Technologies (MIPT), which is ironic considering thatSWsoft/Parallels founder, Sergei Beloussov, is Russian as well.It’s CEO and co-founder is Artem Prokopenko.No other information about the company is available at the moment.iCore brings OS virtualization to the clients, selling its containers, called
Virtual Accounts
, as different user personalities for working, gaming,browsing, etc.At the moment the company offers its product for free on Windows XP onlyand claims just 1-2% overhead.
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