Sun releases xVM in another step toward Virtualization of the IT Industry

The Information Technology Industry took another step toward the great Computing cloud today when Sun announced xVM Ops Center a tool aimed at managing both physical and virtual resources. For more on Sun's announcement read Information Week - Sun Expands Virtualization Push Into Operations Management:

Sun recently announced xVM, a hypervisor for Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and AMD (NYSE: AMD) servers. In the long run, it seeks to participate in more than the x86 virtual machine creation realm, an area that threatens to be commoditized before long. Sun also wants to discover, monitor, provision, and update virtual machines through xVM Ops Center.

Ops Center will become available as a commercial product sold on a subscription basis on Jan. 8, ahead of the commercial release of the xVM hypervisor, which means it will manage physical resources in its initial phase. The xVM hypervisor will become available in the second quarter of 2008.

"As xVM becomes available, Ops Center will take on management of the virtual part" of the data center as well, said Steve Wilson, VP of xVM in an interview.

And with every step toward Virtualization and the Computing Cloud comes the further commoditization of Information Technology professions. It's coming, prepare yourself for it.

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