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The Open Virtualization Alliance (OVA) is a consortium committed to fostering the adoption of open virtualization technologies including KVM. The consortium promotes examples of customer successes, encourages interoperability and accelerates the expansion of the ecosystem of third party solutions around KVM.[1]

The OVA provides education, best practices and technical advice to help businesses understand and evaluate their virtualization options. The consortium complements the existing open source communities managing the development of the KVM hypervisor and associated management capabilities, which are rapidly driving technology innovations for customers virtualizing both Linux and Windows® applications. The OVA is not a formal standards body and does not influence upstream development, but encourages interoperability and the development of common interfaces and application programming interfaces (APIs) to ease the adoption of KVM for users.

Membership

Initially formed by Red Hat and IBM,[2] the Alliance now has over 200 members involved with enterprise virtualization.[3] Participation is open and the OVA encourages new participants to become members. Membership is tiered, with governing memberships requiring higher dues than general memberships. One of the criteria for joining the Alliance is to produce or use a product or service that is based on KVM. Find details on joining, the consortium's structure and governance in their publicly available bylaws.

References

  1. ^ Kusnetzky, Dan. "IBM's Open Virtualization Alliance, oVirt and KVM Update". Article. ZDNet. Retrieved 23 January 2012.
  2. ^ Dornan, Andy. "Big Tech Vendors Form Open Virtualization Alliance". Article. Information Week. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  3. ^ Rosenberg, Dave. "Open Virtualization Alliance adds 100-plus members". Article. CNET. Retrieved 19 September 2011.


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