Artisanal server vendor SoftIron smells blood in the water since Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware led to considerable price hikes for many users, so has developed an alternative server virtualization platform whose key selling point is the ability to run with existing external storage hardware.
SoftIron’s offering is called VM Squared and is based on the KVM hypervisor – a module for the Linux kernel. VM Squared is therefore essentially a Linux distro tailored to run as server…