Monday 30 May 2011

Infrastructure is Boring: The Next Phase

The VMware keynote at EMC World 2011 focused on defining the move into a "post-PC" world. It's been a fairly common refrain for VMware for the last couple years, but in this particular keynote I got the impression that we seem to be preparing for a world where the hypervisor isn't front and center as well. That's not to say that the hypervisor isn't important or critical as the foundation of the platform, but well, it's not very sexy any more. Personally, I think VMware has done a great job of continuing to innovate at the hypervisor level, far more so than any other provider in the market, and it shows in the depth and breadth of their offering; you don't get an 85% market-share by accident.

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Infrastructure is Boring: The Next Phase