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Randy Kerns, an analyst at Evaluator Group, said customers can benefit from using the same software on-prem and in the cloud for two reasons: First, the virtualization software from IBM is a fairly mature product compared with new implementations that may have issues still to be uncovered.
“The second major benefit is that by leveraging the software, a vendor can focus resources across different potential uses,” Kerns said.