Multivac

I was about to add to the technocrat's mail yesterday that when talking about virtualization, there has to be a mention of cloud computing - the service driving the adoption of the technology. But then I stopped myself short thinking that perhaps CC is just one small element of the adoption drivers of virtualisation.

And then today morning, I came across an interesting tit-bit of trivia. According to Microsoft (their research chief Rick Rashid), over 20% of the servers sold 'each' year (I guess a trend over the past few years) have been to Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. And this is without the widespread adoption of cloud computing. Well, then I wouldn't have been way of the mark in saying that these giants and the trends as we see them developing in CC will drive the technologies and adoption of virtualisation - at a software and a chip level.

As for Multivac, that just may be the final destination. So long as it isn't the Douglas Adam's version of the Supercomputer - Deep thought. I'd like my research results to lead in better directions than a forty-two.