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Even with the incredible traction virtualization is making in the market it’s still easy to get confused as to what virtualization means in every case. Is it server virtualization provided by hypervisors like Xen or ESX? Is it storage virtualization? Network virtualization? Broadly, it’s all of the above.

One thing that’s clear is that the market [...]

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Virtualization, Disaster Recovery (DR) and Green IT (power and cooling)! These three topics are headlining the tech sections of newspapers around the globe, and businesses are smartly marketing their products around this tidal wave of buzz. Everywhere you look, it’s the same themes.

Take for example, CNBC’s Mad Money, one of my favorite shows. Jim Cramer [...]

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Earlier this year I blogged some predictions and called 2007 the year for Virtualization. Not a very aggressive prediction given what is going on in the industry, but it doesn’t make it any less accurate. But in order to get to this point, the seeds had to be sown many years ago.

In early 2000, Egenera [...]

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If you subscribe to the de facto definition of “server virtualization,” then you agree it’s a technology used to consolidate applications running on a single processing resource by allowing multiple operating systems to operate securely on the same CPU.  No one will argue that it’s great for increasing the utilization of servers and improving the [...]

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I guess if you are going to blog then you need to make some predictions at the beginning of the year.  Predicting what will happen in IT is about as easy as predicting whether the Red Sox will win the World Series…come to think of it, that’s actually been pretty easy lately.  So here goes…

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