A Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner® Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms

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"The server virtualization market is facing the most significant disruption in decades.

Heads of infrastructure and operations (I&O) are being forced to question the vendor and technology options for current and future virtual workloads – and respond accordingly."

Source: Gartner Inc., Market Guide for Server Virtualization Platforms, By Tony Harvey, Elaine Zhang, Chris Saunderson, Published 23 October 2025.

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To us, this recognition reinforces Sangfor's position as a top-tier alternative in the server virtualization market, backed by Sangfor aSV, a next-generation hypervisor purpose-built to meet the demands of modern IT infrastructure.

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Recommendations from Gartner

Heads of I&O should:

Use this change as an opportunity to drive modernization by engaging with the architecture and development teams to understand key requirements for a future virtualization platform.
Strategic Modernization
Ease migrations and potentially reduce costs by minimizing server core counts, eliminating unused virtual machines and consolidating systems.
Efficiency Optimization
Identify the core capabilities required in a replacement virtualization platform and then pursue 'quick win' and low-risk opportunities to evaluate and implement alternate virtualization technologies.
Rapid Validation
Prepare an exit strategy for your existing hypervisor platform; list dependencies and skills and likely exit scenarios.
Risk Mitigation

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Sangfor Virtualization

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Ultimate Reliability
Ultimate Reliability
Proactive Stability: AI-assisted risk prediction, Intelligent HA 2.0, DRS 2.0, and automated hot migration from VMware, including VM configurations and security policies.
Overload Protection: Stable and consistent service output under high-pressure workloads.
Experience Consistency
Experience Consistency
Seamless Ecosystem: Agentless backup with Veeam, Veritas; full API support and out‑of‑the‑box automation.
Consistent Experience: Benchmarking VMware’s architecture, UI, and PowerCLI, minimizing learning curve.
Future-Proof Foundation
Future-Proof Foundation
Scalable and Secure: Large-scale batch migration with built-in security and DR capabilities.
Full-stack Foundation: Support growth from virtualization to private cloud and distributed cloud environments.

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