If the average person has heard of virtualization at all, the idea probably left little impression beyond something to do with running corporate data centers packed with computing hardware.
But the era in which virtualization directly affects ordinary folks, too, is on its way.
The company in the forefront of the technology, an EMC subsidiary called VMware, drew 12,488 people to its VMworld conference here this week, and one theme of the show was the growing push to move the technology beyond the server realm. Initially that means PCs, but the company demonstrated its technology on mobile phones, too.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10345111-264.html
the era in which virtualization directly affects ordinary folks, too, is on its way.
If the average person has heard of virtualization at all, the idea probably left little impression beyond something to do with running corporate data centers packed with computing hardware.
But the era in which virtualization directly affects ordinary folks, too, is on its way.
The company in the forefront of the technology, an EMC subsidiary called VMware, drew 12,488 people to its VMworld conference here this week, and one theme of the show was the growing push to move the technology beyond the server realm. Initially that means PCs, but the company demonstrated its technology on mobile phones, too.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10345111-264.html
The era in which virtualization directly affects ordinary folks, too, is on its way.