Moving on, your understanding of application virtualization is hopelessly inaccurate, I challenge you to name any application virtualization product that can take a copy of Microsoft Office and make it run on OS X or Android.

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These services are strong in the aforementioned Microsoft domain, but also in database, application performance, virtualization, and many other areas.

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Fusion-io said that its Fusion-io virtualization caching software offers intelligent application caching for Linux as well as Microsoft operating systems.

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He then indirectly uses this analogy to announce that virtualization, today, replaces the hardware and that the application platforms replace the operating system.

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Microsoft has its own application platform, called Azure, and Citrix offers its own line of virtualization software.

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Previously, dedicated application software was required for each OS when multiple OSes are running on the virtualization software.

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But if you take into account the use of open source products like Xen and KVM in massive data centers, web server farms, and by web application providers like Google and Salesforce.com, the CPUs running open source virtualization likely dwarfs the commercial market.

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VMware focuses on the virtualization they know from their data center background with a vision to bring cloud, virtual desktop and application delivery together under one product.

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