When Credit Suisse wanted to virtualize the 10,000 servers that powered its worldwide operations, it found its numerous investment banking divisions had selected many different computing environments. Choosing any single virtualization vendor–Citrix Systems (NSDQ: CTXS), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA), VMware–presented problems as the bank ran up against the limits of what each vendor was willing to support. So Credit Suisse rolled its own virtualization layer, putting management tools on top of all the leading hypervisors, letting it sustain a cross-vendor infrastructure.
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