Alex Vasilevsky
Founder and CTO
Virtual Iron Software

Welcome to my first blog. Obviously, virtualization is a white hot technology space, but there is a lot of confusion about it and still too much unfulfilled promise. My goal here is to paint a bigger picture about the possibilities of server virtualization and how it will change the IT and the server industry as we know it today.

Because this is the first entry, I'm going to start at a high level. My hope though is that we can quickly dig deeper into topics such as the future of the server industry and the impact that consolidation and virtualization will have on it. I'd also like to discuss what's holding users back from getting more value out of their existing virtualization solutions and how open source virtualization and innovation will usher in monumentous changes within the data center.

I'd also like to hear your ideas about the same.

But first, what is virtualization?