IDC analysts believe that virtualization and cloud computing will shape the current IT infrastructure. Experts forecast that the virtualization market will grow at a CAGR of 8.5% from 2010 to 2016, exceeding $218 billion in total volume by 2016.
Today, we can say that virtualization has not just been given a new lease on life but has experienced a real boom. Its key characteristics, high flexibility and scalability, allow it to be used successfully in cloud computing. This is why most existing cloud solutions are based on virtual machine technology.
Virtualization is not a new topic, per se. IBM developed this technology back in the 1960s, but it was largely ignored in the 1980s-1990s until its revival at the turn of the Millennium, when VMware introduced virtualization to x86 systems. Over the last several years, virtualization has passed through several development stages, and today, it is not just an instrument aimed at supporting large mainframe hardware partitions and improving equipment utilization. Virtualization technologies address the most important angles of virtual machine mobility to improve IT environment performance and control. These technologies also stand out because of their various functionalities —from well-known storage infrastructure for storing any data amount (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Windows Live SkyDrive, etc.) to the ability to create remote offices and branches and consolidate companies’ servers and storage.
Auriga has already been working in the field of virtualization for a few years. The first virtualization and hardware emulation projects were launched in our company back in 2005 for one of the world leaders in chip manufacturing, and today, Auriga is considered one of the leading experts in this field in the outsourcing industry.
Thanks to multiple projects, our engineers gained considerable experience in virtualization technologies. Auriga gained unique expertise in working with bare metal hypervisors. This enables us to effectively face all challenges offered by our clients, said Auriga’s General Manager Vyacheslav Vanyulin.
Indeed, the company carries out a number of virtualization projects for companies of global renown. Auriga’s engineers are involved in developing and supporting several virtualization platforms and perform projects on hardware emulation for these platforms, including high-level emulation of HD Audio, Ethernet, USB, Super IO chip, block devices, etc.
More specifically, within the frames of one project, Auriga’s experts develop drivers for various operating systems that can be launched on a virtual platform with a hypervisor adapted for different architectures, such as Intel and ARM. They can run both paravirtualized and fully virtualized operating systems, including Linux, Windows (XP/7), and various RTOSs. Therefore, there is the possibility of using shared services simultaneously in a number of guest OSs.
One of Auriga’s successfully completed projects included developing an alternative hardware simulation to the proprietary simulation software. To accomplish this task, Auriga’s engineers developed an integrated simulation environment and control tools that allowed users to develop behavioural models, execute simulations, and run, debug, and analyze trace data within a single development tool using a unified approach.
Another project that yielded great appreciation from the client—a leading consumer electronics and mobile communications company—involved the development of a Solid-State Disk (SSD) simulator evaluation platform to evaluate and measure performance and analyze and test different controller algorithms with real applications.
Our client’s feedback reflects our developers’ high-performance quality and professionalism. The Director of Engineering of a company for which Auriga carries out virtualization projects said,
Once again, Auriga’s engineers have exceeded our expectations. They have done an EXCELLENT job in HALF the time that we had expected to spend. I don’t know of any team that could have done a better job on this project. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
