VMware is currently considered the leader, because of the way it dominates the server consolidation space, currently the biggest part of the virtualization world.
Based on the position of the virtualization layer, virtualization can be of different types like full virtualization, paravirtualization and OS level virtualization.
All of the virtualization vendors, VMware, Novell, Citrix, Microsoft and Oracle, have or are working on the same sort of automation for virtualization on private data centers.
This evolutionary approach is probably one of the most compelling advantages of the virtualization journey.
Citrix had all of the virtualization pieces including application, network and process virtualization before this purchase.
In my first article I introduced the concept of the virtualization journey.
Because of virtualization, the process whereby computer resources are most optimized, each microprocessor core is operating nearly all the time, meaning a separate low voltage regulator for each core, not just for each processor as originally envisioned.
Tarkan Maner, Wyse's voluble, Turkish-born chief executive, tells visitors that because of virtualization "the PC is dead, and PC makers are going to have to adjust their business models to deal with that fact".
Indeed, because of system virtualization and physical infrastructure protection, the IP addresses of physical data servers are not public.
It's also the virtual workspace and the virtualization of experience.
