2006 was supposed to be the coming out party for holographic storage. Multiple product launches were eagerly anticipated. There was a fair amount of media buzz, complete with analyst estimates of 45M unit shipments and a $125M market by 2010. The reality today is bleak. Aprilis is gone. Optware has gone into hibernation. Only InPhase is still ...

It can be a challenge today to find a large enterprise that’s not tinkering with desktop virtualization in some way, shape or form. Marketers have been capitalizing on the virtualization hype to repackage what’s essentially an old technology as the latest and greatest route to eye-popping cost savings. Not that there isn’t an element of truth in ...

One of the more intriguing ideas to bubble out of the virtualization ecosystem is VMCasting – the notion of distributing virtual machines via RSS feeds. Coined by Enomaly, an open source consulting firm best known for Xen management tool Enomalism and co-founder Reuven Cohen, its primary use today is as an Enomalism feature that allows large ...

Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V. I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently served by their partners. This is primarily because their investors have their feet to the ...

Barry Eggers from Lightspeed Ventures has posted his 2008 predictions for Enterprise Infrastructure. He believes that flash-based storage, which I posted on earlier, will gain traction in the data center. Also discussed are two different aspects of virtualization, where he validates Microsoft's 2006 acquisition of Softricity, and ...