Virtualization, viewed as one of the most promising technology investments in an economic downturn, is of great interest to enterprises seeking to build a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with rapid business change. Investments are being made in proven products for infrastructure virtualization management, dynamic workload management, moving edge applications to cloud computing service providers, and tools for power management - to name just a few.rock333 wrote: At the IaaS Cloud layer virtualisation is going to be essential to allow the self service attributes, all painful and slow to do with physical hardware. Moving up the stack to PaaS and SaaS the use of virtualisation may, as you say, be less required if you put lots of smarts into your software. A lot of software does not have those smarts and by utalising virtualisation of the layers below can manipulate existing software architectures to have more cloudy attributes through automation (eg run load balancers and deploy more servers automagically).
Over time, as new investment in software at...
Mar. 18, 2010 02:11 AM EDT
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