One new technology to watch out for is Hyper V. A lot of companies have watched the runaway success of VMWare and always wanted a part of the pie. While VMWare had the early mover advantage, there have been others who have also launched competing products, but Hyper V is different since it is backed by the muscle power of Microsoft.
EMC acquisition of VMWare did boost its arsenals but virtualization is a more natural extension in the server business to Microsoft than a lateral one for EMC. Apart from a superior "connect" with the Microsoft server environment, Hyper V can challenge VMWare tremendously on price. Eventually the decision may be to either go for some superior functionalities with VMWare paying a lot of money or go for the standard stuff that Hyper V brings in at a fraction of the cost.
This will only broaden the market and commoditize virtualization from what is still a big enterprise's domain. Microsoft can even include this is a default service in its OS for servers to really create havoc for VMWare.
EMC acquisition of VMWare did boost its arsenals but virtualization is a more natural extension in the server business to Microsoft than a lateral one for EMC. Apart from a superior "connect" with the Microsoft server environment, Hyper V can challenge VMWare tremendously on price. Eventually the decision may be to either go for some superior functionalities with VMWare paying a lot of money or go for the standard stuff that Hyper V brings in at a fraction of the cost.
This will only broaden the market and commoditize virtualization from what is still a big enterprise's domain. Microsoft can even include this is a default service in its OS for servers to really create havoc for VMWare.
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