Virtualization Everywhere

After many years and multiple false starts, virtualization technology has entered the enterprise mainstream. Today, the technology is established: obsolete emulation technologies have given way to hypervisors capable of near bare-metal speeds, hardware support for virtualization is designed into the latest generation of Intel and AMD processors, and both operating systems and servers are shipping virtualization-ready. But, adoption by business users is split, with large enterprise organizations committed and underway, while most businesses are still examining the technology at arms' length.