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What is Virtualization Software?
Virtualization software enables the creation and management of virtual machines (VMs) that emulate physical computers. By abstracting the underlying hardware, it allows multiple operating systems to run on a single physical machine, improving resource utilization and flexibility. Virtualization provides an isolated environment for applications, increasing security and stability by preventing conflicts between different software systems. It also simplifies the management of IT infrastructure, as virtual machines can be easily created, cloned, and moved between different hosts. This technology is crucial for businesses looking to scale their operations, optimize resource usage, and improve disaster recovery processes. Compare and read user reviews of the best Virtualization software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Google Compute Engine
Google
Virtualization on Google Compute Engine enables the creation of isolated virtual environments on a shared physical infrastructure. This technology allows users to maximize resource utilization and simplify workload management by creating multiple virtual machines (VMs) on a single host. Google Compute Engine’s virtualization capabilities offer users the ability to scale resources up or down based on real-time needs, providing both performance and cost-efficiency. With $300 in free credits, new customers can explore how virtualization can benefit their workloads and optimize their cloud infrastructure.Starting Price: Free ($300 in free credits) -
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Kasm Workspaces
Kasm Technologies
Kasm Workspaces streams your workplace environment directly to your web browser…on any device and from any location. Kasm uses our high-performance streaming and secure isolation technology to provide web-native Desktop as a Service (DaaS), application streaming, and secure/private web browsing. Kasm is not just a service; it is a highly configurable platform with a robust developer API and devops-enabled workflows that can be customized for your use-case, at any scale. Workspaces can be deployed in the cloud (Public or Private), on-premise (Including Air-Gapped Networks or your Homelab), or in a hybrid configuration.Starting Price: $0 Free Community Edition -
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ManageEngine OpManager
ManageEngine
OpManager is a network management tool geared to monitor your entire network. Ensure all devices operate at peak health, performance, and availability. The extensive network monitoring capabilities lets you track performance of switches, routers, LANs, WLCs, IP addresses, and firewalls. Monitor the finer aspects of your network: Hardware monitoring enables CPU, memory, and disk monitoring, for efficient. performance of all devices. Perform seamless faults and alerts management with real-time notifications and detailed logs for quick issue detection and resolution. Achieve network automation, with workflows enabling automated diagnostics and troubleshooting actions. Advanced network visualization-including business views, topology maps, heat maps, and customizable dashboards give admins an at-a-glance view of network status. 250+ pre-built reports covering metrics like device performance, network usage, uptime, facilitate capacity planning and improved decision-making.Starting Price: $95.00/one-time -
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ManageEngine Applications Manager
ManageEngine
ManageEngine Applications Manager is an enterprise-ready platform designed to monitor an entire application ecosystem of a business organization. Our platform helps IT and DevOps teams get visibility into all the dependent components within their application stack. With Applications Manager, it becomes easier to monitor the performance of mission-critical web applications, web servers, databases, cloud services, middleware, ERP systems, messaging components, and more. It has tons of features that fast-track the troubleshooting process and help reduce MTTR. This way, issues are fixed before application end-users are affected. Applications Manager has a fully functional dashboard that can be customized to get performance insights at a glance. By configuring alerts, it constantly keeps a lookout for performance issues within the application stack. Combining this with intelligent machine learning, Applications Manager helps turn performance data into actionable insights.Starting Price: $395.00/Year -
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Inuvika OVD Enterprise
Inuvika
Our virtual desktop solution, OVD Enterprise, delivers Windows and Linux apps and desktops (VDI) to any device. Built on Linux, it reduces Windows licensing requirements, needs less infrastructure and reduces total costs by up to 60% compared to Citrix or VMware Horizon (Omnissa). Microsoft SQL Server licenses are not required. It can be deployed on-premises or through any cloud provider. OVD is also available as a service through our network of Managed Services Providers. Migration from Citrix or Horizon is easy. OVD Enterprise integrates with today's leading enterprise standards, including any directory service, storage or hypervisor. Key Features: -Deliver Windows and Linux apps and desktops -Use any device - macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS/Android, Chromebook, Raspberry Pi, or any HTML5 Web browser. -Full multi-tenancy support -Full USB redirection -Integrated Two-Factor Authentication -Integrated secure gateway allows for secure remote access. No need for NetScalerStarting Price: $8.55/concurrent user/month -
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Runecast
Runecast Solutions
Runecast is an enterprise CNAPP platform that saves your Security and Operations teams time and resources by enabling a proactive approach to ITOM, CSPM, and compliance. It automates vulnerability assessment, configuration drift management and continuous compliance – for VMware, Cloud and Containers. By proactively using our agentless scanning in real-time admins discover potential risks and remediation solutions before any issues can develop into a major outage. It provides continuous audits against vendor best practices, common security standards, and frameworks such as BSI IT-Grundschutz, CIS, Cyber Essentials, DISA STIG, DORA, Essential 8, GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, KVKK, NIST, PCI DSS, TISAX, VMware Security Hardening Guidelines, and the CISA KEVs catalog. Detect and assess risks and be fully compliant across your hybrid cloud in minutes. Runecast has been recognized with Frost & Sullivan's 2023 European New Product Innovation Award in the CNAPP industry. -
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Virtual Serial Port Driver
Electronic Team, Inc.
Virtual Serial Port Driver is a system utility by Electronic Team that emulates a serial port and pairs it with another virtual serial port via a virtual null modem cable. All ports created with the help of the software completely emulate serial port settings exactly like real ones, and support HandFlow control and signal lines. This makes virtual serial ports visible to an operating system, which recognizes them as “standard” hardware serial ports. All data sent to one virtual COM port immediately appears in the other one and vice versa. Once a virtual serial port pair is created, users can find the ports in Device manager. They are available for use on system startup, even before logging in to the system. Users developing their own applications can integrate a Virtual Serial Port Driver (DLL, ActiveX, or Core level usage) into their software to create and manage virtual COM ports directly from it.Starting Price: $89.95 -
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Cameyo
Cameyo
Cameyo is the secure Virtual Application Delivery (VAD) platform for any Digital Workspace. Cameyo makes it simple, seamless, and secure to deliver Windows and internal web applications to any device from the browser without the need for virtual desktops or VPNs. By enabling organizations to provide their people with secure access to the business-critical apps they need to stay productive from anywhere, Cameyo helps make remote & hybrid work, work. Hundreds of enterprises and organizations utilize Cameyo’s Digital Workspace solution to deliver Windows and internal web applications to hundreds of thousands of users worldwide.Starting Price: $12.00/month/user -
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Multiplicity
Stardock
Our KVM switch virtualization frees up your workspace, removing the cables and extra hardware of a traditional KVM switch. Whether you are a designer, editor, call center agent or road warrior using both a PC and laptop, Multiplicity makes working across multiple computers a breeze. Quickly and securely drag and drop and copy/paste between PCs. Control multiple PCs with one keyboard and mouse. AES 256 encryption of all data sent between PCs. A single keyboard and mouse can control multiple PCs, each with dedicated displays. Smoothly move the cursor across multiple displays connected to multiple computers.Starting Price: $21.24 one-time payment -
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Parallels RAS
Parallels
Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) is a remote work solution that provides secure virtual access to business applications and desktops on any device or OS—from anywhere. The platform offers an agile, cloud-ready foundation and end-to-end security fueled by a centralized management console with granular policies. Companies can leverage on-premises, hybrid, or public cloud deployments and integrate with existing technology like Microsoft Azure and AWS. Parallels RAS aims to give organizations the flexibility, scalability, and IT agility to adapt to changing business needs. Parallels RAS offers a single, full-featured licensing model that includes 24/7 support and access to product training.Starting Price: $120 US/year/concurrent user -
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Parallels Desktop for Mac
Parallels
Whether you need to run Windows programs that don’t have Mac versions, or you are making the switch from PC to Mac and need to transfer your data, Parallels Desktop has you covered. Develop & test across multiple OSes in a virtual machine for Mac. Access Microsoft Office for Windows and Internet Explorer. Fast—run Windows apps without slowing down your Mac. Quickly move files, apps and more from a PC to a Mac. Use Windows side-by-side with macOS (no restarting required) on your MacBook, MacBook Pro, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac mini or Mac Pro. Share files and folders, copy and paste images and text & drag and drop files between Mac and Windows applications. Parallels Desktop automatically detects what you need to get started so you are up and going within minutes! If you need Windows, you’ll be prompted to Download and Install Windows 10 OR Choose your existing Windows, Linux, Ubuntu, or Boot Camp installation.Starting Price: $99.99 per year -
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Platform9
Platform9
Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise private clouds. Our platform uniquely combines ease of use with flexibility, integrating seamlessly with existing storage and server infrastructure as well as other enterprise platforms. With automated migration tools, open APIs, and flexible deployment options—self-hosted, air-gapped, or SaaS—Platform9 gives you the freedom to run your private cloud, your way. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns existing servers and storage into a fully featured private cloud. It delivers a familiar management experience for virtualization teams—with the ability to run VMs and containers side by side—and enterprise-grade features including High Availability, live migration, Dynamic Resource Rebalancing, Software Defined Networking, Self Service, and secure multi-tenancy. Hundreds of enterprises, including Rackspace Technology, Cloudera, and Juniper Networks use Platform9 today. -
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phoenixNAP
phoenixNAP
phoenixNAP is a global IaaS provider delivering world-class infrastructure solutions from strategic edge locations in the U.S., Europe, Asia-Pacific, Australia, and Latin America. Specializing in performance, security, and availability, the company provides vastly redundant systems, unsurpassed security, high-density deployments, and flexibility to service from ¼ cabinets to private cage environments. Its Bare Metal Cloud solution provides access to 3rd Gen Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for advanced infrastructure performance and reliability. phoenixNAP offers a 100% uptime guarantee, an extensive server lineup, global connectivity options, flexible SLAs, and 24x7x365 live support to help businesses achieve their business objectives. Deploy high-performance, scalable cloud solutions for your growing IT needs, along with the security and reliability that you require at opex-friendly pricing plans.Starting Price: $0.10/hour -
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Delska
Delska
Delska (former DEAC European Data Center & Data Logistics Center) is a carrier-neutral data center and network provider in Northern Europe with 25 years of experience delivering reliable, personalized IT and network solutions in cloud computing, colocation, data security, network, and more. We own five data centers (one under construction, launching in 2025) in Riga and Vilnius, along with points of presence in Frankfurt and Amsterdam. For quick IT infrastructure deployment in Riga, Vilnius and Frankfurt, we have created the self-service myDelska cloud platform. It offers fast, secure, and scalable solutions and, in the summer of 2025, along with the VM management, will also offer bare metal servers. Delska data centers stand out for their energy efficiency, operating at PUE under 1.3 and powered entirely by green energy. Our upcoming Tier III-certified, 10 MW data center in Riga will exemplify green construction.Starting Price: €10 -
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DataCore SANsymphony
DataCore Software
Are you troubled by storage management nightmares? Whether you are losing sleep over managing different storage tiers for hot, warm, and cold data, or finding it hard to address disruptions and slowdowns, you can now rest easy with a truly software-defined storage solution. DataCore SANsymphony enables you to centrally automate and manage capacity provisioning and data placement across your diverse storage environment (any SAN, DAS, HCI, or JBOD). Powered by a block-level storage virtualization technology and a rich set of data services, SANsymphony gives ultimate flexibility to control how you want to store and protect your data. SANsymphony allows any combination of hyper-converged, converged, and storage virtualization deployment models to reduce business risks, IT complexities and costs associated with various architectures, data migration initiatives and protocols. DataCore’s hardware-agnostic approach frees organizations from vendor lock-in & provides ultimate flexibility. -
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Leostream
Leostream Corporation
Connect to anything - anywhere, any time, and from any device, quickly and securely. A modern web-based UI is your centralized hub for all your remote resources. Management wants Windows, designers want macOS, and developers want Linux - support multi-OS environments with ease. Leostream works seamlessly with Teradici Cloud Access Software and PCoIP Remote Workstation Cards, providing high-quality graphics for applications running in the datacenter or the cloud. Together, Leostream and Scale Computing offer a complete VDI solution that is simple to set up, easy to manage, and cost-effective for small business. Leostream manages user-to-resource assignments and connections in large-scale enterprise environments from wherever your users roam. Build a VDI or DaaS solution your clients will love with Leostream. Leostream provides all the tools you need to build and deploy a VDI.Starting Price: $7.50 per user per month -
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KubeVirt
KubeVirt
KubeVirt technology addresses the needs of development teams that have adopted or want to adopt Kubernetes but possess existing Virtual Machine-based workloads that cannot be easily containerized. More specifically, the technology provides a unified development platform where developers can build, modify, and deploy applications residing in both application containers as well as virtual machines in a common, shared environment. The benefits are broad and significant. Teams with a reliance on existing virtual machine-based workloads are empowered to rapidly containerize applications. With virtualized workloads placed directly in development workflows, teams can decompose them over time while still leveraging the remaining virtualized components as is comfortably desired. Combine existing virtualized workloads with new container workloads on the one platform. Support development of new microservice applications in containers that interact with existing virtualized applications. -
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Stratodesk NoTouch
Stratodesk
Stratodesk NoTouch is the #1 Thin Client endpoint OS and management solution in the world. Comprised of both NoTouch OS and NoTouch Center, Stratodesk NoTouch lets you transform any PC, Thin Client, Laptop or Raspberry Pi device into a secure and centrally managed Thin Endpoint. You can also instantly deploy NoTouch OS onto thousands of devices and manage them from oStratodesk NoTouch is the #1 Thin Client endpoint OS and management solution in the world. Comprised of both NoTouch OS and NoTouch Center, Stratodesk NoTouch lets you transform any PC, Thin Client, Laptop or Raspberry Pi device into a secure and centrally managed Thin Endpoint. You can also instantly deploy NoTouch OS onto thousands of devices and manage them from one browser. NoTouch OS is the minimal footprint OS that installs from your server onto your PC, Laptop, Thin Client, or Raspberry Pi Device. NoTouch Center is the #1 endpoint management software for your VDI endpoints. -
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Hyper-Q
Datometry
Adaptive Data Virtualization™ technology enables enterprises to run their existing applications on modern cloud data warehouses, without rewriting or reconfiguring them. Datometry Hyper-Q™ lets enterprises adopt new cloud databases rapidly, control ongoing operating expenses, and build out analytic capabilities for faster digital transformation. Datometry Hyper-Q virtualization software allows any existing applications to run on any cloud database, making applications and databases interoperable. Enterprises can now adopt the cloud database of choice, without having to rip, rewrite and replace applications. Enables runtime application compatibility with Transformation and Emulation of legacy data warehouse functions. Deploys transparently on Azure, AWS, and GCP clouds. Applications can use existing JDBC, ODBC and Native connectors without changes. Connects to major cloud data warehouses, Azure Synapse Analytics, AWS Redshift, and Google BigQuery. -
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Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform
Kubermatic
Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform (KKP) helps enterprises successfully drive digital transformation by automating their cloud operations anywhere. KKP enables operations and DevOps teams to centrally manage VMs and containerized workloads across hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud, and edge environments with an intuitive self-service developer and operations portal. Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform is open source. Automate operations of thousands of Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud, on-prem, and edge environments with unparalleled density and resilience. Setup and run your multicloud self service Kubernetes platform with the shortest time to market. Empower your developers and operations team to deploy their clusters in less than three minutes on any infrastructure. Centrally manage your workloads from a single dashboard with a consistent experience from cloud to on-prem to edge. Manage your cloud native stack at scale with enterprise level governance. -
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Ensure the security of your workloads, simplify regulatory compliance, and guarantee data sovereignty with IBM Cloud Secure Virtualization. A trusted cloud infrastructure must be able to answer these questions for corporate oversight, security, and compliance. A customer wants to create an environment where administration, workload execution, and data access are constrained to a particular geo-location with full audit capabilities. During deployment, identify the firmware configurations you will allow and the hypervisor configurations you have approved. Accurately identify each physical host and its physical location, creating a snapshot or fingerprint of each trusted host's launch configuration. This is stored in an allowlist. If the measurements of a host's BIOS and hypervisor match the measurements stored in the allowlist, the boot environment is attested. The host launches into a state that is considered trusted.
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IBM® Rational® Test Virtualization Server software enables early and frequent testing in the development lifecycle. It removes dependencies by virtualizing part or all of an application or database, so software testing teams don’t have to wait for the availability of those resources to begin. Reduce the cost of deploying and configuring complex application environments. Achieve agility and predictability with continuous integration testing earlier in the development lifecycle. Integrate with IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management, which provides collaborative testing. Virtualization capabilities range from data-driven and correlated response sequences to full stateful database emulation. A centralized repository of virtualized environments means you can reuse, deploy and change the environment configuration to test different scenarios. IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server offers all the features in IBM Rational Performance Test Server to help validate app performance.
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AWS Nitro Enclaves
Amazon
AWS Nitro Enclaves enables customers to create isolated compute environments to further protect and securely process highly sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII), healthcare, financial, and intellectual property data within their Amazon EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves uses the same Nitro Hypervisor technology that provides CPU and memory isolation for EC2 instances. Nitro Enclaves helps customers reduce the attack surface area for their most sensitive data processing applications. Enclaves offer an isolated, hardened, and highly constrained environment to host security-critical applications. Nitro Enclaves includes cryptographic attestation for your software, so that you can be sure that only authorized code is running, as well as integration with the AWS Key Management Service so that only your enclaves can access sensitive material. -
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IBM PowerVC
IBM
IBM PowerVC is an OpenStack-based virtualization management solution designed to simplify the deployment and management of virtual machines across IBM Power Systems running AIX, IBM i, and Linux. It offers rapid deployment capabilities, reducing time-to-value through straightforward installation and configuration processes. The intuitive user interface minimizes the need for specialized training, enhancing administrator productivity. PowerVC facilitates efficient resource utilization by enabling resource pooling and implementing placement policies, thereby optimizing IT costs. The Dynamic Resource Optimizer (DRO) provides policy-based automation for active workload balancing within host groups, ensuring optimal performance. VM templates support consistency and standardization, streamlining deployments and reducing labor costs. Key features include automated I/O configuration for mobility and high availability, and seamless import and deployment of workload images. -
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ZStack Virtualization Foundation is the virtualization platform with out VMware tax. ZVF delivers the full enterprise hypervisor experience — VM management, high availability live migration, distributed networking, and storage integration — on any standard hardware, with no per-core licensing surprises.
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IBM Turbonomic
IBM
Cut infrastructure spend by 33%, reduce data center refresh costs by 75%, and get back 30% of your engineering time with smarter resource management. Increasingly, complex applications run your business. And they can run your teams ragged trying to stay ahead of dynamic demand. When application performance drops, teams are often reacting at human speed, after the fact. To avoid disruption, you may overprovision resource allocations, making estimates that are often costly and don’t always pay off. The IBM® Turbonomic® Application Resource Management (ARM) platform allows you to eliminate this guesswork, saving both time and money. You can continuously automate critical actions in real time—and without human intervention—that proactively deliver the most efficient use of compute, storage and network resources to your apps at every layer of the stack. -
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Clonetab
Clonetab
For ERPs like Oracle e-Business Suite, PeopleSoft & Databases Clonetab is the only software which can virtualize and provide true end-to-end on-demand clones of ERPs (like Oracle e-Business Suite, PeopleSoft) or databases. It can also provide an integrated solution for virtualization, cloning, Disaster Recovery, Backups and Oracle EBS Snapshots. Clonetab engines – Deeply aware of ERP Applications, not just Databases The engines are deeply EBS & PS aware and can identify the major releases (e.g. R12.1, R12.2) and patchset levels like AD, TXK and executes the clone commands accordingly. The platform provides options to retain EBS/PS specific options like profile option retention, Concurrent/Process scheduler setups retention, EBS users with responsibilities retention, Database links, Directories retention, workflows setups and many more options, resulting in a true end-to-end ERP clone. -
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CloudDesk
CloudDesk
CloudDesk offers an end-to-end suite of products to deploy our Next-Gen Virtual Workspace solution with the objective of helping clients build new levels of user experience and business values through enhancing your IT agility. A software to create PC lab maps and schedules, and allows end-users to view resources availability in various locations (campuses, offices) and conveniently book desktop and release resrouces through a web portal. A web portal that allows end-users to create, configure and provision their own desktop and resources, and login to access any of their personal desktop anytime, anywhere. A unique client-based processing virtualization platform for streaming desktop and enables users to access desktop offline. An application virtualization software which streams applicaitons to desktop that eliminates compatibility issues. A lightweight server-based processing VDI platform that allows pooled or personalized virutal desktop.
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