Chris Wolf at the Burton Group with some very insightful coverage of VMworld 2007, and I don’t say that just because he says "Last week’s VMworld conference was arguably the most significant virtualization event to date."
Data Center Strategies: VMworld 2007 – What you may have missed.
To me, VMworld 2007 marked the coming out party for enterprise
virtualization. x86 virtualization’s past, present, and future were
clearly on display. For IT architects, the challenge is clear – hedge
your bets on virtualization’s future and align today’s technology
decisions based on those assumptions. My future data center has the
following traits:
- Is managed by system administrators that focus on business value supported by applications – IT as a service
- Utilizes standards-based management
- Supports all virtual machines regardless of the platform which packaged them
- Leverages embedded hypervisors or hypervisors that fully reside in
memory (as with Virtual Iron) to ensure better security and power
efficiency- Pools hardware resources (server, storage, network) and uses them
when needed to meet workload demand and dramatically save on power and
cooling- Includes a management layer capable of provisioning server,
storage, and network resources and associated security settings on
demand- Includes rollback technology that empowers users to recover from system or application failures without IT intervention
VMworld showed me the future of server virtualization and data centers. What did it show you?
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