Vendors of virtual machines must ensure their products are interoperable, or they will lock customers into yet another proprietary stack, nullifying the promise of anytime, anywhere computing on any platform offered by virtualization. This was the major theme of Citrix Systems chief technology officer Simon Crosby’s keynote speech Thursday at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. VM vendors still face several issues in getting to interoperability and an industry standard architecture, Crosby said.
Citrix CTO Eyes the Future of Virtualization
August 8, 2008