This is a response to a blog postby analyst and marketing consultant
Curt Monash.
Originally virtualization meant running one operating system in a
window inside of another operating system, e.g. running a Linux
on a Windows machine using Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare. Then
virtualization evolved to mean slicing a single server into many
for more granular resource allocation (Curt’s ex uno
plures, translated: out of one, many). It has since
expanded to include e pluribus unum (from many, one)
and e pluribus ad pluribus (from many to many). This is
evidenced in the use of the term “virtualization” to create the
compound words: server virtualization, storage virtualization,
network virtualization and now database virtualization.
Server Virtualization: Abstracts the physical …