Virtualization goes mainstream in San Fran

Over 10,000 attendees this week converged on the fourth annual VMworld conference in San Francisco. After pulling off a successful IPO, VMware President and CEO Diane Greene declared that virtualization has officially gone mainstream in the enterprise. She predicted a complete overhaul of the IT environment as virtualization adoption accelerates, affecting everything from disaster recovery, security, provisioning, and infrastructure consolidation.  As an additional side benefit: "We're helping companies save lots of money by using less electrical power." VMware's coming out party has marked the start of what promises to be a dynamic foot race to see who captures the lion's share of this nascent market. To maintain its early lead in the market, VMware has hooked with a who's who of big name technology partners that include: Dell, IBM, NEC, HP, EMC and NetApp.

For more on VMWorld:
- read the article in eWeek