Virtualization Daily

According to EWeek Cisco’s CEO John Chambers is saying that virtualization is inevitable.

“I’m very proud to be a plumber. Pipes will get bigger, faster and more intelligent. We believe that virtualization is going to happen,” Chambers said, explaining that to him, virtualization means a user’s ability to access any application from any screen.

“We need to mask complexity from the average person,” he added.

“It will be a gradual process but we are moving aggressively,” said Chambers, pointing to the company’s AON middleware platform as a key enabling technology. “We’re in the first inning of a nine inning ballgame. It’s inevitable,” said Chambers.

In this case, I think he’s referring more to network virtualization rather than server virtualization, but all of this is tied together and growth in one area feeds growth in the others. And all virtualization, be it server, network or storage is pointing us down the path toward true utility computing.