Last week, VMware held its large annual VMworld 2010 conference in San Francisco. It was an opportunity to talk about upcoming products and technologies, and show off some of the great things it's doing. It also seems like a logical time to take a quick step back and look at virtualization – where it is, where it’s going, and what it means to us every day.
The widespread use of virtualization as a server platform has skyrocketed in the last 24 months, for a few obvious reasons. First, the technology has gotten mature, and with the competition among very big players (VMware, Microsoft and Citrix), it has also gotten increasingly affordable. Second, virtualization has been positioned as the enablement platform for cloud computing. Of course, you can build a cloud infrastructure for applications and services on a traditional hardware-based network, but the cost and complexity would be prohibitive. Instead, leveraging a virtual server platform means the cloud is available to businesses of all shapes and sizes. I guess the only question is whether virtualization enabled the cloud, or the cloud pushed virtualization.
To learn more and to read the entire article at its source, please refer to the following page, The State of Virtualization - CTO Edge (blog)
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