It's been just over a year since I wrote this article about where I thought virtualization was going. The primary idea behind the article was that while a lot of exciting things were happening around server/ x86 virtualization, the improvements we were seeing were just that: improvements. They were not major paradigm shifts in how we, as IT professionals and architects familiar with VMs, look at systems. I talked about how VMware and all VM platforms changed the way we thought about doing datacenter deployments, server implementations, etc.; but the improvements we were seeing at the time were not a huge change like the first time we actually “got” what VM's meant to IT as a whole. With all that said, I suggested an idea about an embedded hypervisor shipping on laptops and desktops that could change the way we think about, manage and deploy desktops. This would also give some interesting (at least what I thought was interesting) use cases for security VMs and Internet browsing VMs, and how this could be a potential drastic change for IT and businesses.
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