There are two ways to look at the rush of secondary and tertiary products coming into the virtualization market — especially this week and next week. The first is that virtualization is the hottest fad in computing and every vendor with technology that can be made relevant on even the most shallow level will past a “Now Virtualized” sticker on the box and try to get in on the frenzy. Fortunately for virtualization customers, though not for the vendors, the second way to interpret the latest wave of virtualization-tagged product announcements is a lot more useful: It’s not that vendors are piling on the bandwagon, it’s that the bandwagon is growing large enough that they have no choice but to jump on.
VMware, Microsoft Take Back Seat as IT Industry Catches Up on Virtualization
August 5, 2008