At Citrix, a maker of open-source virtualization software, Hutchison was senior vice president of marketing.
Meanwhile, Day says that the new mainframe--combined with virtualization software--is far more efficient than IBM's previous systems.
That honor goes to IBM, which developed virtualization software for huge mainframe servers back in the 1960s.
EMC's release came a day after that of its former subsidiary VMware, which makes computer virtualization software.
Previously, dedicated application software was required for each OS when multiple OSes are running on the virtualization software.
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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 biggest of these being VMWare, the leader in virtualization software, which enables one computer server to act like several at once.
The biggest of these is VMWare, the leader in virtualization software, which enables one computer server to act like several at once.
Over the past year, security researchers have revealed bugs in practically every piece of virtualization software, including products from virtualization heavyweights VMware and Microsoft .
VMware shares are trading higher Monday morning after analysts at both Credit Suisse and Collins Stewart raised their ratings on the virtualization software provider.
In 2001, VMware released its breakthrough virtualization software for lower-end servers.
Instead of one PC client hosted on one server, virtualization software allows companies to host many PCs on a single server, cutting total IT energy costs.
Domestic companies may delay buying new PCs and other hardware, says IDC analyst Stephen Minton, but they'll keep spending on so-called virtualization software from VMware and others that increases the efficiency of servers.
On Tuesday, VMWare reported a 48 percent jump in revenue for the second quarter, a greater increase than expected, and raised its outlook for the full year on strong demand for its virtualization software.
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It is similar to what happened a few years ago when companies such as VMware Inc. began offering virtualization software that made it possible to run more than one program on a single server system.
The 7000 and the 5000 (names are not Cisco's strong suit) do the tricky work of unifying servers, data storage and virtualization software (a way to get one server to do the work of several so you get more bang from each).
Although VMware is the leader in so-called virtualization software, which lets servers run many operating systems and applications at the same time, the company hasn't come up with a strategy to remain on top, especially as Microsoft has begun ramping up its virtualization offerings.
By utilizing Red Bend's mobile virtualization software, vLogix MobileTM, it is possible to enable the coexistence of multiple OSes running on a single CPU. In this cooperation, Panasonic and Red Bend have introduced an environment in which a Linux-based OS and the Android platform coexist.
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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.
This is possible because virtualization makes cloning software very easy, and Networked Attached Storage devices have extremely sophisticated ways of making virtual copies of large amounts of data and then tracking the changes between the two copies, which saves massive amounts of storage.
You are still buying hardware, software, and virtualization technology, and owning gear.
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Consumerization, virtualization, cloud computing, software as a service, mobility are all increasing the complexity of the job of managing IT by orders of magnitude.
Despite the buzz the company has generated, VMware didn't invent virtualization, a class of software that makes better use of the processing power inside computer servers.
Reeves said VMware should make more inroads into other areas of virtualization, such as desktop PCs and software applications, and focus less on selling products that are similar to Microsoft's.
Today, virtualization allows servers to be converted to software "images" that can be consolidated and hosted on a single physical server, increasing a data center's efficiency by about 25%, Kerravala estimates.
He cites recent acquisitions of software-defined network and network virtualization pure-plays by existing cloud players as proof points.
In five years, Dutra says, more efficient servers and virtualization--the conversion of multiple computers into software that can be run on a single machine--will allow Sun to do away with five of its eight data centers, reducing both the centers' square footage and data consumption by around 50%.
Microsoft is considered VMware's biggest threat, and the software giant says it's serious about virtualization.
Virtualization turns each of those underperforming machines into pieces of software and packs them together on a single physical server that runs continuously.
This is true even though technologies such as virtualization, deduplication, intelligent storage tiering and more recently software defined storage allow more efficient utilization of storage hardware.
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