http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/15/appliances-are-not-dead-yet/ Technology ... politics ... marketing ... strategy ... life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:52:33 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/15/appliances-are-not-dead-yet/#comment-1488 The Monash Report»Blog Archive » Virtualization seems somewhat overhyped Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:31:34 +0000 http://www.monashreport.com/2006/07/15/appliances-are-not-dead-yet/#comment-1488 [...] Virtualization is in many ways pure goodness, just as proponents say. But even so, I think it’s being overhyped. As software, hardware, and processor vendors all get larger, economies of scale are allowing very tight development coupling so as to optimize performance, power usage, etc. For example, I’m running into Intel engineers at almost every large company I follow. If you buy software — and who builds their own if they don’t have to? — you’re now likely to get something that’s been carefully optimized for very specific operating environments. And then there are appliances, which are still trending up, not down. (See also what Stuart Frost of DATallegro has to say on that point.) Or check out this ostensibly pro-virtualization article that really is in agreement for me. [...] [...] Virtualization is in many ways pure goodness, just as proponents say. But even so, I think it’s being overhyped. As software, hardware, and processor vendors all get larger, economies of scale are allowing very tight development coupling so as to optimize performance, power usage, etc. For example, I’m running into Intel engineers at almost every large company I follow. If you buy software — and who builds their own if they don’t have to? — you’re now likely to get something that’s been carefully optimized for very specific operating environments. And then there are appliances, which are still trending up, not down. (See also what Stuart Frost of DATallegro has to say on that point.) Or check out this ostensibly pro-virtualization article that really is in agreement for me. [...]

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