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VMware Manages the Release Lifecycle
1/28/2008
The hypervisor (the most basic virtualization component) is already being commoditized. Leading virtualization vendors are reaching beyond the bare metal to provide a range of management solutions for this technology. As industry analyst Neil Macehiter, research director at Macehiter Ward-Dutton, puts it, "it's a race up the stack."
"Ultimately, the battleground in virtualization is going to be fought at the management, monitoring, optimization and resource-allocation level, rather than around the core hypervisor," Macehiter said.
Virtualization continues to spread through the enterprise primarily as a server consolidation solution, Macehiter added, but it's making inroads into other spheres, including storage, network and application virtualization.
The VMware Stage Manager public beta is available now for download from the VMware site.
John K. Waters is a freelance journalist and author based in Palo Alto, CA.
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