Archive for January, 2007



Virtualization may redefine the software industry

I love headlines like that. Paul Gillin over on CIO Blogs is looking at how virtualization may redefine the software industry.
Once virtualization becomes a commodity, he believes, users’ buying patterns will change. Software will no longer become obsolete because of changes to the operating system or server hardware, but will live on indefinitely in their […]

IDC predicts software appliances will become a household word in 2007

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 […]

Amazon introduces the virtual appliance concept to EC2

Amazon has added the ability to release publicly available virtual machines for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) grid computing service. Prior to this there were only a few Amazon created machines available, now others can easily share virtual machines created for the service and third parties can start creating virtual appliances that target the […]