Virtualization is Driving IT Savings

Virtualization – server virtualization, and to a lesser extent desktop virtualization – is driving IT savings.  This, of course, is almost self-evident to anyone paying attention to what’s going on at the leading edge of computing these days.  Virtualization technology from companies like VMware has taken us from the days of single CPU, single OS to a single CPU with multiple virtual machines towards cloud computing / utility computing, leveraging the efficient pooling of on-demand server infrastructure to scale to run an almost arbitrary set of applications – be it public cloud computing, private cloud computing, or hybrid cloud computing. 

After talks with a number of industry analysts, we recently settled on WAN Virtualization as the term to describe the new market category that Talari is pioneering with our Adaptive Private Networking technology.

I think the term works well on a couple of levels.  For one, it's in the same vein as, yet distinct from, WAN Optimization, befitting the complementary nature of WAN Virtualization and WAN Optimization technology.  More importantly, just as Enterprise WANs have gone from being composed of point-to-point leased lines, to leveraging reliable public cloud networking (X.25, Frame Relay, ATM and now MPLS) and a bit of unreliable public cloud networking (the public Internet) for remote access and IPSec VPN backup connectivity, WAN Virtualization technology like Talari's is changing enterprise WANs in the same way that VMware and server virtualization are changing enterprise computing, enabling reliable public cloud networking.

WAN Virtualization leverages the economics of the public cloud network that is the Internet, as well as enabling hybrid cloud networking utilizing a combination of private WAN connectivity and public Internet connectivity.

If you've been reading this blog for a while, you've seen previous posts here and here on how Talari's technology is similar to RAID. Since RAID was, after all, essentially storage virtualization phase 1 – or phase 0, I suppose, depending on your point of view – the term works at that level as well.

In future posts, you'll be hearing a lot more from us about the exciting possibilities that result from synergies across WAN Virtualization, server virtualization and WAN Optimization.

Comments

[Matt Bancroft]

There has been an immens raise in the use of server virtualization. Generally the deployment of virtual desktops has increased ://v12ntoday.com/blogposts/desktop-virtualization-served-with-wan-optimization.html this article tells that how companies understand the advantages of virtualizing their desktops and servers. There are different opinions regarding the installation of the WAN for Desktop virtualization. It will take time until this will become a common practice amongst the virtual vendors.

[WAN optimization]

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