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Seattle Times: Virtualization was cool

This tech panel checked out some stuff that was cool and not so cool in 2007.

Virtualization:

One of the hottest public-stock offerings this year was VMWare, underscoring the impact that virtualization — software that creates virtual versions of an operating system on a single computer — is starting to have.

Score: 3.7

Comments: Directions on Microsoft analyst Matt Rosoff: "Not sexy, but perhaps the most important trend in IT today." Lazowska: "It's been around since the 1960s (IBM has continuously shipped it on mainframes since that time)." Swenson: "I've read numerous stories about IT managers getting rid of dozens of servers and running all of those apps in separate virtual environments on a single box. This is the nightmare scenario for server companies come to life."



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