Network Appliance’s announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or another: virtualization. Network Appliance said its NetApp V-series family of data storage and management systems would use “groundbreaking, dynamic virtualization” to deliver cost savings to customers with a smarter, more fluid approach to storage.
I provided the (below) definition to some folks a couple years ago. > I think IT fits Virtualization as does Cluster/Grid/... Beowulf/SETI/... all the way back to 1960's. Is IT all now marketer-buzzed under "Virtualization"? If so, then I must remember when talking with PowerPoint Engineers, Hypothetical Scientist, Vapor Bosses, ... at work or they'll think I am an idiot. >>> >>> Definition: Operating System (Global/Virtual): > The main control software for a computer and/or on a networked device, which schedules and responds to all tasks, > Allocates and/or manages all resources (hardware, communications, Input/Output Devices, Ports/Sockets, ...) and/or virtual machines/environments, > Acts as the core (kernel) interface for software development programmers, Networks and Systems Administration folks, and the occasional expert users, > Allows the user population access to all tractable and amicable applications and services on the network, > Provides all Intranet protocols and/or requirements for LAN Connectivity (should not be proprietary, but frequently ....), > Delivers open standards, protocols, and software compliance with Internet and/or WAN connectivity for any/all distributed and collaborative user communities (must never be proprietary, but ... some would own the ...). > Note: By this definition, the standards, protocols, and (at least) the communications applications used on the World Wide Web (WWW) [AKA: Internet], supports the platform Independent Architecture (for Users on a virtual interoperability network). An operating system that supports online users, institutions, governments, and business enterprises applications, such as banking, shopping, VTC, VoIP, telemedicine, Disaster Relief Operations, ... "The Internet as OS-Global". > > OpenContent/GPL by J.D.Bailey On 2003/07/23@0721EST > The definition I used implies we are headed (totally accidental) towards the common-platform. I believe; many in the open source/standards community see this future. The way humanity gets to the future is sometimes a circuitous and confusing path, but possible destinations are discernable from the rubble of our troubles (past and present). > This does not mean one software OSD and/or one hardware OEM; however, it does mean that the business model that built a Microsoft, IBM, GM, ... may be a legacy business model of the 20th Century.
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Network Appliance, Industry Touting Virtualization
Posted by: Jay Lyman March 30, 2005 01:17 PMNetwork Appliance’s announcement of its latest V-Series storage and management systems highlight the further spread of a trend that nearly all major hardware and software vendors tout in some form or another: virtualization. Network Appliance said its NetApp V-series family of data storage and management systems would use “groundbreaking, dynamic virtualization” to deliver cost savings to customers with a smarter, more fluid approach to storage.
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I think IT fits Virtualization as does Cluster/Grid/... Beowulf/SETI/... all the way back to 1960's. Is IT all now marketer-buzzed under "Virtualization"? If so, then I must remember when talking with PowerPoint Engineers, Hypothetical Scientist, Vapor Bosses, ... at work or they'll think I am an idiot.
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Definition: Operating System (Global/Virtual):
> The main control software for a computer and/or on a networked device, which schedules and responds to all tasks,
> Allocates and/or manages all resources (hardware, communications, Input/Output Devices, Ports/Sockets, ...) and/or virtual machines/environments,
> Acts as the core (kernel) interface for software development programmers, Networks and Systems Administration folks, and the occasional expert users,
> Allows the user population access to all tractable and amicable applications and services on the network,
> Provides all Intranet protocols and/or requirements for LAN Connectivity (should not be proprietary, but frequently ....),
> Delivers open standards, protocols, and software compliance with Internet and/or WAN connectivity for any/all distributed and collaborative user communities (must never be proprietary, but ... some would own the ...).
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Note: By this definition, the standards, protocols, and (at least) the communications applications used on the World Wide Web (WWW) [AKA: Internet], supports the platform Independent Architecture (for Users on a virtual interoperability network). An operating system that supports online users, institutions, governments, and business enterprises applications, such as banking, shopping, VTC, VoIP, telemedicine, Disaster Relief Operations, ... "The Internet as OS-Global".
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OpenContent/GPL by J.D.Bailey
On 2003/07/23@0721EST
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The definition I used implies we are headed (totally accidental) towards the common-platform. I believe; many in the open source/standards community see this future. The way humanity gets to the future is sometimes a circuitous and confusing path, but possible destinations are discernable from the rubble of our troubles (past and present).
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This does not mean one software OSD and/or one hardware OEM; however, it does mean that the business model that built a Microsoft, IBM, GM, ... may be a legacy business model of the 20th Century.