15 August 2007 - 2:25pm, Bert Armijo (not verified) said:
You make an excellent point. InfoQ quoted IBM's Gerrit Huizenga as saying "The shear number of virtual servers that gets installed makes administrating almost as painful as real servers." By virtue of my role at Topspin I was able to see this a few years back and it's part of the reason 3tera is in the utility computing space.
The interesting question is really whether services and products like yours and ours should be thought of as virtualization at all. While the definition of virtualization you cite is liguistically correct, the common usage within the industry is really limited to describing partitioning of a physical resource into multiple smaller consumable units. The next step in evolution, however, isn't about partitioning at all. What our companies do is aggregate resources. Whether through Amazon's APIs, 3tera's virtual datacenters, or Appistry's application fabric, our users are really interested in consuming bulk resources. As such, we face completely different challenges than VMware and Xen did in building their products. Therefore, IMHO this is a new generation of technology unto itself.
You make an excellent point.
You make an excellent point. InfoQ quoted IBM's Gerrit Huizenga as saying "The shear number of virtual servers that gets installed makes administrating almost as painful as real servers." By virtue of my role at Topspin I was able to see this a few years back and it's part of the reason 3tera is in the utility computing space.
The interesting question is really whether services and products like yours and ours should be thought of as virtualization at all. While the definition of virtualization you cite is liguistically correct, the common usage within the industry is really limited to describing partitioning of a physical resource into multiple smaller consumable units. The next step in evolution, however, isn't about partitioning at all. What our companies do is aggregate resources. Whether through Amazon's APIs, 3tera's virtual datacenters, or Appistry's application fabric, our users are really interested in consuming bulk resources. As such, we face completely different challenges than VMware and Xen did in building their products. Therefore, IMHO this is a new generation of technology unto itself.