Abiquo was designed to avoid dependence on any infrastructure, virtualisation technology, hypervisor or storage solution. Not only does this help our customers free themselves of expensive vendor lock-in technologies – it helps our customers realise the opportunity to better assess, test and compare the costs and performances of the alternatives very simply and efficiently.

For example – Abiquo allows for conversion of virtual machines from one hypervisor model to another in any combination with a single drag and drop operation.  Want to test your production environment on lower cost hardware? You can.  Want to test your production environment on lower cost virtualised technology? You can.  Easily, quickly.

This can lead to significant cost savings for your enterprise when you compare the ‘average’ like for like costs of running a virtual machine on say, VMware (vCentre/vSphere) than on Microsoft (Hyper-V), let alone when comparing against Linux (KVM).

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And it’s not just hypervisor technologies that can be compared and assessed quickly – you can also undertake the same exercise for comparing storage solution technologies and costs, ensuring you have the right information to best manage your budgets.