Red Hat has claimed that its new open source virtualisation platform, RHEV3, would provide a strong alternative to VMware.

The company said that RHEV3 would offer greater flexibility, improved performance with the KVM hypervisor platform and more server headroom than VMware.

Navin Thadani, senior director of virtualisation business at Red Hat, said that the latest version of the RHEV was released the high demand for a more flexible substitute to VMware.