The same computation and virtualization platform technologies that have produced game worlds also underpin financial markets, and are therefore unsurprisingly producing similar effects.

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The comprehensive portfolio that Red Hat has developed with platform, virtualization and middleware products provides enterprise customers with a foundation to deploy the next generation infrastructure.

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Dell is VMware's number one reseller, and in the view of Dell, the acquisition makes a good fit because EqualLogic is a good platform for VMware server virtualization products.

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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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The server virtualization leader announced version 5 of its venerable hypervisor and version 1.5 of vCloud Director, its IaaS platform atop vSphere.

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