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Starting with where the industry is moving...Virtualization 2.0 starts with removing the layers of complexity by virtualizing both above the operating system and below. That means going beyond server virtualization (Virtualization 1.0) and combining that with network and storage virtualization to transform data center infrastructure into flexible, changeable assets. Virtual Machine (VM) technology (using hypervisors from VMware, XenSource and others) is still a focus. No one will deny that it's important technology for consolidating boxes and upping utilization. But for virtualization to move into a more strategic and powerful role in your organization, you should be coupling VMs with robust management software that replaces specialized VM instruction sets with point and click tools that manage both virtual and physical assets. This way, you can run bare metal mission critical servers and VMs on the same platform. You can do this only if your platform allows for out of the box high availability , verifiable disaster recovery, and solves power and cooling issues for all server types. The "holy grail" of Virtualization 2.0 and beyond is when you can go physical to virtual and virtual to physical dynamically.

Egenera is the "Data Center Virtualization Company" - you've heard us say this a lot. Data Center Virtualization is Virtualization 2.0+. We've been going outside the "box" for more than seven years now.