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Server Commoditization & The Coming Boom

January 23, 2008 at 9:11 am · Filed under Business ·Tagged , , , ,

With a current close-up of a macro trend I’ve been tracking here over the past 18 months, Dave Winer hits the nail on the head driving home the impact of the commoditization of scalable servers: Right now I can’t buy a Jabber server that scales without also hiring someone who will scale it for me. [...]

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The Virtual Is Real – Just Ask Amazon!

November 1, 2007 at 2:30 am · Filed under Amazon, Business, TVIR

This is NOT about Amazon’s presence in Second Life but rather how and why their Hardware as a Service(HaaS) strategy is part of the evolving meshverse economy. In the spirit of previous posts about Cisco and Intel, I was going to call it Amazon The Hardware Company, but … well, y’all know I just couldn’t [...]

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Virtualization To Ship With Hardware

September 11, 2007 at 1:51 am · Filed under A Quick Link, TVIR, Technology, VMWare, Virtualization

Instead of being installed and run from disk, virtualization software is being built into hardware in the form of flash memory. Related Links: Citrix: The Virtual Is Everywhere The Virtual Is Real: VMWare IPO

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Citrix: The Virtual Is Everywhere

August 16, 2007 at 9:24 am · Filed under Metaverse, News, TVIR, VMWare, Virtualization

Hot on the heels of Tuesday’s VMWare IPO, XenSource the primary competitor to VMWare was snapped up by Citrix which has been positioning itself as a key player in the realm of desktop virtualization software. Citrix president and CEO Mark Templeton believes that the opportunities in the virtualization market are huge and is looking to [...]

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The Virtual Is Real: VMWare IPO

August 14, 2007 at 5:54 pm · Filed under TVIR, Technology, VMWare, Virtualization

For over a year now, I’ve been saying that if you “follow the money”, you’ll see why the virtual is real. Today this became even more evident. Despite a down day on Wall St, the IPO of VMWare surged over 75%! VMWare makes software that enables the creation of virtual computers. Virtualization software is designed [...]

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