Virtualization Daily

Baseline Magazine has an interesting article titled “Virtualization: Beyond the Buzz” that’s looks at some of the emerging areas in the virtualization space that go beyond server virtualization.

Clearly, we’re well down the path toward expanding the concept of virtualization beyond products such as virtual operating systems. What’s significant is how a whole class of products are about to combine to create the foundation for a model of enterprise computing that will let us manage I.T. assets from a much higher level of abstraction. It’s unclear how that higher level will eventually be managed, but what’s almost certain is that fewer, more powerful systems will do the work of hundreds of others, and the number of people we need to manage those systems should be substantially reduced. Furthermore, for the first time in industry history, we will be able to separate the deployment of new applications from the purchase of hardware, because hardware will have evolved into a pool of resources that can be accessed on demand versus being a set of physical devices tethered to specific applications.