Meet the Virts

ABSTRACT

When you dig into the details of supposedly “overnight” success stories, you frequently discover that they’ve actually been years in the making. Virtualization has been around for more than 30 years—since the days when some of you were feeding stacks of punch cards into very physical machines—yet in 2007 it “tipped.” VMware was the IPO sensation of the year; in November 2007 no fewer than four major operating system vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, and Sun) announced significant new virtualization capabilities; and among fashionable technologists it seems virtual has become the new black.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.8 Performance

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.1 Process Management
      D.4.2 Storage Management
          Subjects: Virtual memory

General Terms:
Algorithms, Theory