Virtualization: The Evolution
Monday, 31 July 2006 by Michel Roth
Virtualization is not new; the technology has been used successfully for over a decade in mainframe environments. Yet just like most technologies, virtualization continues to evolve and with each advance, it becomes "new" again.

Virtualization today not only allows for multiple operating environments and workloads to run independently on a single physical machine, it also allows for the pooling of multiple physical resources. Intel Corporation and VMware, Inc. recently announced the launch of Intel-VMware Virtualize ASAP, to help customers in the deployment of applications in virtual environments using VMware on Intel Xeon processor-based platforms.

Any way you slice it, some very big companies are expending considerable time and resources delving into this technology and that alone makes it worth a look.

Read on at EnterpriseITplanet.com.

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