Advice to Sun: Buy Virtual Iron

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 18, 2007

“On Wednesday, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced
a free open-source server virtualization and management platform
dubbed Sun xVM. Sun says it will commit $2 billion in R&D
spending to make Sun xVM a reality.

“Hmm, good idea. The server virtualization market is on fire and
it is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, it is maturing fast.
According to ESG, of those organizations planning to deploy server
virtualization, 28 percent of companies plan to deploy in the next
six months, while 42 percent plan to deploy within the next year.
That’s a lot of deployment in the near future, which has to favor
Citrix, Microsoft, and VMware over a newcomer like Sun…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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