Over the past decade, virtual machines have become the de facto standard in the enterprise. A parallel trend is emerging as more and more organizations are unwittingly finding themselves with heterogeneous hypervisor environments. While managing multiple hypervisor environments may present an IT challenge, the increase in operational costs is outweighed by the reductions in licensing from moving from proprietary software to open source hypervisors.
The quest for agility and movement to open source has prompted the rise of the DevOps culture in enterprise IT.