I have been reading various interesting articles on various blogs n vendor websites about the oncoming onslaught of new technologies in the virtualization hard and software space. A lot of the software side was revealed by virtualization leader VMware during VMworld Europe and on top of that we get Cisco's announcement around their UCS offering.
An interesting dicussion by Scott Lowe, about some of the technologies involved can be found here. It is indeed more profound then Cisco simply entering the bladeserver market.
It's essentially the birth of a next-gen virtualization eco-system that takes virtualization to the next level. Of course we're only just standing at the virtual craddle of this new baby, but given how the various developments are coalescing, it's quite clear that this may in fact be a new-wave of virtualization, in bringing the infrastructure for Compute, Storage and network to new optimal performance levels, while promising to ease the burden of management. Now we see how the traditional server vendors react...
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