An Introduction to Virtualization

Microsoft acquired Connectix Corporation, a provider of virtualization software for Windows and Macintosh based computing, in early 2003. In late 2003, EMC announced its plans to acquire VMware for $635 million. Shortly afterwards, VERITAS announced that it was acquiring an application virtualization company called Ejascent for $59 million. Sun and Hewlett-Packard have been working hard in recent times to improve their virtualization technologies. IBM has long been a pioneer in the area of virtual machines, and virtualization is an important part of IBM's many offerings. There has been a surge in academic research in this area lately. This umbrella of technologies, in its various connotations and offshoots, is hot, yet again.

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