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http://chucksblog.typepad.com/chucks_blog/2006/12/grid_and_virtua.html

The question was simple enough: “when should I be thinking grid, and when should I be thinking server virtualization?”.

“I think it makes sense — in the long term — to think of abstracted computing environments, and not virtualization and grid specifically.  To do so could result in multiple IT stacks being built, followed by the inevitable reconciliation and reintegration.”

A very interesting perspective on grid and vmware, how they are both relevant ways of providing a way of running, deploying and supporting applications.

What is interesting is that we’re continuing to move away from a typical kind of physical box, defined operating system, application, to a grid/vmware and application, the operating system impact is becoming less significant.

Yes you have an os, but it’s mainly because your application depends on a tool it can interact with to manage the processing cycles, the memory and the storage to run.  Once we virtualize the physical, box, the storage, the next move whether its grid or another product, is to virtualize the application, to move to an era where there’s vmware, virtual storage, and application or virtual application.

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