virtual appliance marketplace stats

Virtual

Applia

nce

mar

ketp

lace

stat

s

Crunch

ing n

umber

s acr

oss m

arke

tpla

ces

G.WINDELSgwindels+slide@gmail.com

Marketplace variety

“Marketplaces” are booming Each VA-related vendor is at a different point of development The idea is to compile data across leading VA marketplaces

VMware (www.vmware.com/appliances) VirtualBox (http://virtualboximages.com/vdi/index?

page=0) Amazon EC2

(developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/kbcategory.jspa?categoryID=171

Parallels (www.parallels.com/ptn/download/va/?sort=update&lsort=&categ=

This represents about 2500 appliances

Protocol

Raw data was captured via web crawlers on marketplaces respective websites

Metrics include operating system, submitter, appliance category

Data was cleansed at the appliance level to reflect exact appliance distribution

Number of appliances

APPLIANCE OS’s – Windows vs. Linux

APPLIANCE OS’s – Ubuntu vs. rest of the world (W/ Windows)

APPLIANCE OS’s – VMWARE

APPLIANCE OS’s – Virtualbox

APPLIANCE OS’s – EC2

APPLIANCE OS’s – EC2

APPLIANCE CATEGORIES - VMWARE

APPLIANCE CATEGORIES - parallels

Top10 Submitters – EC2

1. Bitnami.org (108)

2. Jumbbox.com (54)

3. Turnkeylinux.com (37)

4. Elasticserver.com (19)

5. Independant (Eric Hammond) (18)

6. IBM AWS (12)

7. RightImage (11)

8. Amazon (11)

9. Oracle (10)

10.Amazon AWS (9)

Top10 Submitters – VMware

1. Bitnami.org (157)

2. Bagside.com/bagvapp (86)

3. Independant (58)

4. Jumbbox.com (57)

5. Vmplanet.net (53)

6. Tuxdistro.com (41)

7. Turnkeylinux.com (41)

8. Thouthpolice.co.uk (39)

9. Vitual Appliance Administrator (37)

10.Chrysaor.info (26)