Virtualization is a broad term that refers to the abstraction of computer resources. It is basically a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with these resources.
The term is an old one: it has been widely used since the 1960s, and has been applied to many different aspects of computing. Broadly speaking, there are two types of virtualization:platform virtualization involves the simulation of whole computers;
resource virtualization involves the simulation of combined, fragmented, or simplified resources
The Cloud has become the latest marketing bandwagon for the Computing, Media and Telecommunications industries. New initiatives covering a range of technologies, services and business models have been conflated under this heading, with forecasts for dramatic growth in Cloud Computing and Services.
The Cloud offers some significant new high-margin revenue opportunities but those building Cloud services need to be aware of the challenges in building and running profitable, scalable services, including multi-tenancy, service management and optimization and appropriate business models.
Uday Phadke, 30 March 2009
Miniweb, the British interactive TV platform spun out of BSkyB, has announced $32 million in venture funding from US investors to take its product offerings international. The Funding comes from Meritage Funds in Denver, Colorado and DeGeorge Holdings III, Nevada.
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Reiko Uchida, 09 September 2008
Elastra, which provides software for configuring, deploying and managing complete application systems in public and private compute clouds, has raised $12 million in Series B financing. The funding was led by Bay Partners, with new participation from Amazon.com and continued participation from...
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Reiko Uchida, 09 August 2008
Cisco and VMware have announced that they are collaborating to deliver joint data center solutions designed to improve the scalability and operational control of virtual environments.
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Michelle Wong, 18 September 2008
DezineForce, the UK-based Engineering Design, Simulation and Optimisation SaaS pioneer, has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A Funding from venture capital firms DN Capital and IQ Capital and several Angel Investors including Dr. Steve Garnett of salesforce.com, to fund the Commercial...
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Michelle Wong, 04 March 2008