The technology industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation. Activity is driven by the rapid emergence and widespread adoption of game-changing technologies such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, and mobility, and growing importance of technologies such as hypervisor software, management consoles, and monitoring and performance analysis tools. These technologies collectively facilitate the management, administration, and optimisation of hypervisors and virtualised environments. In the last three years alone, there have been over 1.5 million patents filed and granted in the technology industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Cloud: Hypervisor management. Buy the report here.
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According to GlobalData’s Technology Foresights, which uses over 1.6 million patents to analyse innovation intensity for the technology industry, there are 185+ innovation areas that will shape the future of the industry.
Hypervisor management is a key innovation area in cloud
Hypervisor management involves overseeing and regulating the fundamental hardware and software components of a virtualisation platform. It encompasses activities like the establishment and removal of virtual machines, allocation of resources, and administration of networks.
GlobalData’s analysis also uncovers the companies at the forefront of each innovation area and assesses the potential reach and impact of their patenting activity across different applications and geographies. According to GlobalData, there are 1650+ companies, spanning technology vendors, established technology companies, and up-and-coming start-ups engaged in the development and application of hypervisor management.
Key players in hypervisor management – a disruptive innovation in the technology industry
‘Application diversity’ measures the number of different applications identified for each relevant patent. It broadly splits companies into either ‘niche’ or ‘diversified’ innovators.
‘Geographic reach’ refers to the number of different countries each relevant patent is registered in. It reflects the breadth of geographic application intended, ranging from ‘global’ to ‘local’.
Patent volumes related to hypervisor management
Source: GlobalData Patent Analytics
International Business Machines (IBM) is one of the leading patent filers in hypervisor management. The company’s patents are aimed at software provisioning in a computer system comprising client devices connected via a communication network to a computing infrastructure.
The computing infrastructure is operable for providing, upon a user's request, a software application package to an already running machine. The software provisioning system is configured to retrieve session information about a user logged in to the computing infrastructure via a client device, thereby creating a session, determining a list of software application packages that the user is entitled to request to be provided to the running machine so that the user is able to use a software application contained in the software application packages and calculate software application usage information from the session information and the list of software application packages.
Other prominent patent filers in the hypervisor management space include VMware and Huawei.
By geographic reach, Bitdefender Ipr Management leads the pack, followed by Micron Technology and SoftBank Group. In terms of application diversity, VMware holds the top position, followed by International Business Machines (IBM) and Huawei.
Hypervisor management provides efficient resource utilisation, scalability, cost savings, simplified infrastructure management, increased system availability, improved security, streamlined backup and recovery, enhanced performance monitoring, simplified software deployment and testing, and centralised management and control. These advantages contribute to enhanced productivity, agility, and reliability in virtualised environments.
To further understand how cloud is disrupting the technology industry, access GlobalData’s latest thematic research report on Cloud Computing – Thematic Intelligence.
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GlobalData’s Patent Analytics tracks patent filings and grants from official offices around the world. Textual analysis and official patent classifications are used to group patents into key thematic areas and link them to specific companies across the world’s largest industries.
