Avastu Blog: Sustainable Global Clouds

Cloud Computing will hyperccelerate the advance of the convergence of Business and IT. Expect more of such vendors to come out in the open and claim pieces of this ever enlarging pie. Today, SIMtone Corporation , a privately held company delivering the next cloud computing paradigm, announced the following product and service offerings including the new SNAPbook -- the industry's first wireless-ready, zero-touch portable WiFi SIMtone terminal that can be used to access on-demand any virtual desktop and other cloud computing services powered by the SIMtone platform. SIMtone Delivers Industry's First End-to-End Universal Cloud Computing Platform -- The SIMtone Universal Cloud Computing Platform enables multiple cloud services, such as "PCs in the Cloud," virtual desktops, DaaS and SaaS, or Web services to be hosted and managed simply, securely and inexpensively in any data center, and ubiquitously accessible by end-users with a single user ID,...

Found this at the Research corner at Microsoft. This new functionality introduced by VirtualWiFi enables many new applications, which were not possible earlier using a single WLAN card. For example, # With VirtualWiFi, you can connect to a guest's machine or play games over an ad hoc network, while surfing the web via an infrastructure network. # You can use VirtualWiFi to connect your ad hoc network, which may contain many nodes, to the Internet using only one node. # VirtualWiFi can help make your home infrastructure network elastic by extending its access to nodes that are out of range of your home WiFi Access Point. Neat stuff this.

x86 muses about the Wireless Virtualization: This diagram illustrates how virtualization could take advantage of this technology. By allowing each virtual machine to have it’s own wireless network could allowing for an amazing web equipment tester. Want to test out a wireless router with 15 clients? 100 clients? easy, just boot up all the virtual machines and run the test suite. Want to run your mac system and connect to your apple hotspot, and then connect your pc to a near by pc on a ad-hoc network? With virtual nics it will be possible. Nice pic this : Check it out.