I am a strong believer that virtualization is going to be one the biggest gamechangers we have seen in IT so far. Or has this already happended. One of the key factors in this (future) succes of virtualization is the commoditization of the Hypervisor.
With this omnipresence of hypervisors and other virtualization solution, the true challenge in IT remains the same: management. One of the developments that lies just beyond the horizon that will accelerate the commoditization of the hypervisor even more are the embedded hypervisors. I've
written about this before when Dell hinted that they would be giving ESX 3i away for free. Joe Foran has revisited this thought in a very good article: "Hypervisors are destined to become a commodity item, even more so than other
software, because everyone will be utilizing virtualization within the next few
years. Dell and VMware aren’t reacting so much to competition from
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