Virtualization Daily

IDC predicts big things for software appliances and virtualization.

Software appliances will become a household word in 2007. The convergence of virtual machine technology and a new initiative by several tool vendors is giving birth to this new form of software packaging.

While they’re at it they use the inevitable Virtualzation 2.0 term.

The next wave in virtualization emerges, which IDC calls Virtualization 2.0. Users will focus on continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability.

I think it’s a stretch that the terms software appliance and virtual appliance will become household words in 2007, but I do believe they will get on the radar of most people involved in systems infrastructure. So at least in some households

Billy Marshall from rPath has some thoughts on this as well.