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Emerging standards in virtualization bring enterprises closer to the promise of anywhere, anytime computing.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Vendors of virtual machines must ensure their products are interoperable, or they will lock customers into yet another proprietary stack, nullifying the promise of anytime, anywhere computing on any platform offered by virtualization. This was the major theme of Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS) chief technology officer Simon Crosby's keynote speech Thursday at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco. "Users want to go to any server working with any platform at any time, and want any virtual machine (VM) on any platform at any time," said Crosby. "The power of virtualization is achievable if and only if that happens." VM vendors still face several issues in getting to interoperability and an industry standard architecture, Crosby said. One is that VM installations still are manual processes, which makes things difficult for global implementations. Also, key business requirements haven't been addressed, Crosby said. RELATED ARTICLES Symantec Moves Into Endpoint Virtualization Big Bucks Lure New Blood in Virtualization Tools Virtualization Needs a New Backup Strategy MokaFive Promises Easier Virtualization Control For more stories on this topic: The need for openness led major players in the virtualization market to jointly create a proposed standard, the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF). Members of the team were XenSource, which is owned by Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, HP, IBM and Dell. ... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]
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