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Photos: Dell CTO pushes virtualization

By // July 18, 2006, 8:42 AM PST // billdetwiler

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  • Dell Chief Technology Officer Kevin Kettler touted the advantages of virtualization at a speech in Boston on Wednesday.

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  • Virtualization will let users encapsulate different tasks into non-interfering partitions that can be devoted to functions such as secure Web browsing, gaming, media processing and file serving, Kettler said.

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  • Kettler demonstrated running Windows Server 2003 in one virtual machine and Red Hat Enterprise Linux in another. Each operating system could access Web pages hosted by the other.

    Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com

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Dell Chief Technology Officer Kevin Kettler touted the advantages of virtualization at a speech in Boston on Wednesday.

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