Abiquo understands that Service Providers want flexible services – that is afterall, one of their key propositions for their customers! Service Providers want to set themselves free of expensive vendor lock-in technologies and capitalise on the different, innovative technologies as soon as possible, not wait for someone else’s roadmap to support it.

Abiquo supports multiple hypervisors, any storage array that the hypervisor is connected to and has flexible options for how the solution integrates with the existing networking infrastructure.

Service providers want to exploit their existing legacy technologies too – not be told by one vendor that they have to switch from platform x to platform y. In either case, Abiquo helps service providers realise the opportunity to better assess, test and compare the costs and performances of the alternatives very simply and efficiently.

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 and quickly – Abiquo allows for conversion of virtual machines from one hypervisor model to another in any combination with a single drag and drop operation.

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).

This flexibility not only serves to help free the Service provider from expensive vendor lock-ins, it present them with an opportunity to develop their offerings at different price points to suit different customer budgets.