Virtual Machines - Parallels, VMware, VPC (Virtual PC), XEN. The Way of the Future for Servers and Storage

There is an interesting scenario playing out in Storage. Take this phrase from the reply above, "we did it mostly due to ZFS manageability". Contrast this to Marc Farley's comments, "Wade O'Harrow, one of our SE's from the southeast was there and completely in his element as a VMware animal. He kept describing our technology as "doing the same thing for storage as VMware does for servers." I admit it took me awhile to figure it out, but I finally did get it. In an EqualLogic SAN, the individual storage systems are really secondary to the logical storage pools that customers create. Volumes can be moved among the underlying storage hardware resources - more or less independently of what those resources happen to be. You need disk drives for virtual storage just like you need processors for virtual servers, but each disk drive just gets less and less important in the scheme of things." And the summation, "I talked to customers from Europe, Asia, South America, Canada and the US who are creating new, large server infrastructures on top of VMware because it saves huge amounts of administrative time. I'm not joking when I say that we haven't seen a technology shift this radical since refrigeration became widespread." Quotes from: "Full speed ahead into V-Land" http://marcafarley.com/blogfile.html

Jeremiah Owyang's writes about the convergence of "enabling" Enterprise Architecture and Web Strategy in a space named the Community. http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/12/22/its-all-about-the-community/

Jesse James Garrett echoes this in his writings about the User Experience. http://www.jjg.net/about/

As does Peter Morville in Information Architect 3.0. http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000149.php

We are finally arriving at the "We no longer manage at the spindle level" destination. Seamless, transparent and invisible "enabling Technology.

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