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August 22, 2025

AI Presents Opportunity To Integrate Alternative Virtualization Platforms

Scott Sinclair
Practice Director, Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps

Emily Marsh
Associate Research Director

Christian Perry
Principal Director, Sponsored and Syndicated Research

Market Topics

Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure

IT budgets are under assault from the ongoing explosion of AI initiatives combined with increased costs of virtualization. To prevent being left behind in AI, businesses are allocating significant investment to AI initiatives, but that investment is complicated by the recent increase in the license costs for hypervisor technology. As a result, organizations are increasingly considering alternative hypervisor technologies, and AI initiatives offer the opportunity to integrate those alternatives that can better support both virtual machines and container technologies. Recent research by Enterprise Strategy Group investigated how organizations are approaching new hypervisor adoption and what challenges they face along the way.

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