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VMworld may be over - but tech journalists are still buzzing about what they saw and heard in San Fransisco last week.
Case in point.
Check out - Get Ready For Virtualization To Effect You, CNet News.
The author presents an intricate look at the VMware; it’s birth, it’s development, it’s future.
There are a couple key points I found interesting though.
The first, this notion of “employee-owned-IT”.
Sounds like a co-op, right?
Wrong.
It’s the belief, by VMware, that virtualization could become more widely used as a way to smooth the differences between people’s own computer preferences and their employers’ needs.
Here is how it’s described:
In the “employee-owned IT” vision, virtualization could let people put a corporate-managed virtual machine on an personal computer. The corporate partition would run only company-approved applications and could connect to the company network; the personal half could run the chaos of other programs that cause corporate IT folks to grind their teeth.
VMware has a technology–formerly called Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and now sporting the more palatable name of VMware View–that also could fit into this idea. With it, the brains of a PC actually run on a central server, with a person’s local machine serving as a mechanism to show the display and capture mouse clicks and keystrokes. So an employee’s corporate PC could actually be housed at the corporate and piped over the Net to wherever the employee happens to be.
The second point I find interesting is the concept of virtual phones.
At VMwareChief Technology Officer Stephen Herrod and Srinivas Krishnamurti, director of emerging markets, demonstrated virtualization on a mobile phone, specifically showing a mobile phone using Windows CE 6.0 run Google’s Android operating system, too.
Why bother, right?
VMware has two arguments.
First is a mobile-phone version of the employee-owned IT vision, where a mobile phone could run corporate programs and access corporate resources in one mode and be used for personal tasks in the other. VMware touts two basic approaches–one in which the second operating system runs at the same time and one in which the phone could switch between the two modes.
The second is programming. Coders face a minefield of complexity when it comes to writing software that can work on many phones. Visa, which demonstrated a mobile application for checking credit card transactions running with VMware’s mobile virtualization technology, expressed support for VMware’s help in this domain.
For me, all of this news about the future of virtualization is very exciting - but I take it with a grain of salt.
I understand that VMware is about flash and dazzle - and with so many irons in the fire, it’s hard to imagine VMware ever making some of their visions are reality.
Time will tell.
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