What's Cool About Virtualization

What's all the buzz about virtualization and VMware?

• By consolidating servers, many of VMware's 20,000 customers have managed to cut IT costs by 50% or more and increase utilization, productivity and efficiency.
• That should make the finance boys and girls happy.

But here's what I think is cool about virtualization:

• The "computer" will cease to exist. The network will be the computer. And it will be a much bigger and more powerful machine than I could every afford.
  • Sun Microsystems was right! -- if only a 10 years too early.
  
  
• Forget the "Triple Play" - telephone, Internet and Cable TV - that companies are offering now. Virtualization will provide a "Home-Run" (that's a four-bagger: communication, automation, entertainment and security) to make it seem like we are all living at the Jetson's Sky Pad Apartments.
• Virtual reality, artificial intelligence and lots of bandwidth under the hood.


• Many "computer problems" today are the result of user errors. Take the computers away and life will be swell for users (AKA everyone).
• A small number of IT pros (real and virual) will keep everything on the holodeck running smoothly.
  

Let me know what you think is cool about virtualization. Leave me a comment.