That may be a bold title, given that virtualization , and anything related to it, was all the rage just a few years ago. But lately, I have been pondering the implications of native cloud application architectures on the underlying infrastructure . A true cloud application is designed with multi-tenant...
I was looking at this week’s issue of InfoWorld and saw a very good article on the latest release of VMware . If this is something you're interested in, it's worth the time.
In the last entry, I briefly touched upon the concepts of commoditization and virtualization . There are other major factors like integration and complexity/simplicity that will affect the data centre of the future. The forces of standarization/commoditization and virtualization will drive down the cost...
Virtualization of hardware platforms has been around for over a decade with emulation of the Windows platform on the Macintosh and vice versa. We have also had the simulation of multiple independent devices on a single device (e.g., partitioning) for a long time as well. This replacement of atoms with...