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Friday May 16, 2008
Virtualization: Opportunity or Challenge
Charlie Babcock over at InformationWeek has a new article out today that dives into a number of issues around virtualization. It's worth a read. First, it gives a good overview of Desktop Virtualization. In particular, he goes into a case study of how Cincinnati Bell is using Sun's VDI software stack and SunRay thin clients to get rid of 3,300 desktop PCs! I sat in on a discussion with a large Wall Street customer yesterday who's just started a pilot with VDI. It solves so many problems for their trading floor applications -- a very demanding area. I can't wait to see what they do with it. The article also goes into one interesting area of I/O virtualization, and talks about startup Xsigo. It looks like they're doing some interesting things. I recently found out my neighbor works there, so maybe I'll have to walk up the street and hear more about what they're up too. Lastly, the article goes into the dark area of virtaulization security. That's something we've been thinking a lot about lately too in xVM-land. In fact, the other day the xVM CTO, Mike Wookey came into my office and talked to me about the new rage in virtualization security: Hyperjacking. The term itself is so cool it belongs in a William Gibson novel. I'm glad we have really smart people looking at the security of our own hypervisor offerings. So many things to think about. Virtualization is changing the IT so rapidly. Will we even recognize a modern data center ten years from now? Posted at 02:51PM May 16, 2008 by Steve Wilson in Virtualization | Comments:
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