Viewers complained that Regulus was nowhere to be found, but although there is a characteristically perverse miniature figure that might conceivably answer to the tragic hero, it's more likely that Turner simply virtualized him into the murderous glare.
As in "Regulus," the tragic hero of Dolbadern became virtualized, personified this time in craggy stone, not blinding light.
"The way to remove friction among all these repositories is to virtualize everything into a common repository," said Nasi Jazayeri, general manager of Salesforce Chatter, the company's corporate collaboration product.
The same kinds of virtualization techniques have already happened with data storage, but networks, which have more parts and functions, are tougher to virtualize.
The cost savings and flexibility revolutionized the data management business, since virtualized machines can run on cheap semiconductors.
But only 15percentt of servers have been virtualized, and with that percentage likely to at least double over the next five years, there is still plenty of opportunity in the market.
In data centers, VMware wants to demonstrate that beyond the hardware savings, the next frontier is the reduced operating costs that result from increasing the number of servers that are "virtualized".
Now, in effect, bin Laden is fully occupying the iconic identity he so lovingly devised: he has virtualized not only his organization but also himself.
"We used to think that owning factories was an important piece of a business's value," says Bryan Doerr, the chief technology officer of Savvis, which provides I.T. infrastructure and what the company calls "virtualized utility services" for companies like Hallmark.
