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I attended the VMWare Virtualization Forum yesterday in Washington, D.C. and came home even more sure that VMWare is the top virtualization vendor out there. It was a lot of marketing, of course, but I still got a lot of good info out of it. Kind of hard to complain about a free full-day event like that.

The next version of VMWare ESX and associated technologies, dubbed ‘vSphere’ seems pretty impressive, especially when coupled with Intel’s new 5500 series Xeon processors. They are calling it a ‘Cloud Operating System’, which is really more marketing speak than anything. The fundamentals of the ESX products have not really changed greatly, just improved; if you ask me, you could have called the previous versions a Cloud OS too and gotten away with it.

I’m really hoping to make it out to VMWorld 2009 this year and am really looking forward to my first vSphere deployment.

- Drew

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For those of you wondering what virtualization really is and what it has to offer, Ars Technica has started putting together a great Guide to Virtualization (part 1).

For those of you that need a “little” more technical detail, they have part 2 up now.

It does a good job of covering the history, basic implementations and types of virtualization.

-Drew

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