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At a conference for UK press this week, Red Hat added some detail to its plans for virtualization, cloud computing and application messaging.
By Martin Veitch | 11 September, 2008 10:56
With more and more companies jumping into the cloud computing fray, this week's joint announcement by Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Yahoo seems like a yawner. But it isn't.
While system virtualization - and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization - has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization.
They say market leadership has its privileges. When you're way out in front and the competition is just a distant blip in your rearview horizon, you get to take a breather. Coast a bit. Maybe focus on the big picture for a while. Yes, it's good to be the leader. All of which begs the question: What the hell is wrong with VMware?
The last time the founders of Qumranet began a start-up it ended with a $320 million exit. Now they are going after the virtualization market.
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