“I enjoyed a lovely conversation with an old acquaintance, Kerry
Kim of Novell. We had spoken many times when he was with Red Hat
and it was nice to chat for a while. The topic of our conversation
was Novell’s overall strategy for virtualization technology. As
with Red Hat, Novell has a comprehensive view of virtualization
that will require me to take time to understand completely. It was,
on the other hand, pretty clear that Novell believes that
virtualization is a fantastic tool to allow organizations to
abstract functions away from the underlying hardware platform to
enhance scalability, reliability, availability and to create a
single management domain out of many separate servers or
blades…”