The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to alt.folklore.computers as well.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#40 ongoing rush to the new, 40+ yr old virtual machine technology IBM Ships 10,000th Storage Virtualization Engine http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=793928 from above: "IBM has been delivering virtualization capabilities for more than 40 years and today we unveil a milestone in the area of data storage virtualization with the shipment of 10,000 storage virtualization engines -- a fact no other storage company in the world can claim," said Kelly Beavers, Director, Storage Software, IBM. "By working across multiple platforms, IBM's storage virtualization helps to lower energy costs and unlocks the proprietary hold that other storage vendors have had on customers for years -- which IBM believes makes storage virtualization the killer application in the storage industry over the next decade." ... snip ... in 1967, the science center: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech had moved cp40 to 360/67 for cp67 and also had it installed out at lincoln labs. it wasn't installed at univ. where i was undergraduate (3rd installation) until last week in jan68 ... and it wasn't "officially" announced until spring share in houston, 1st week mar68. minor reference mentioning 35th anniv of cp67 announce http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003d.html#72 cp/67 35th anniversary other recent posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#33 Age of IBM VM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007s.html#41 Age of IBM VM other recent news articles: Future Threats to Virtualization Security: Fact vs. Fiction http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/111407-future-threats-to-virtualization-security.html Virtualization hot; ITIL, IPv6 not, survey says http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;1522739452;fp;16;fpid;1 A Virtual Conversation http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3711431 Oracle's Ellison: Virtualization, Applications, We Got It All http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=203100432 Sun Commits $2 Billion to Virtualization http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20071115/bs_nf/56757 Sun Commits $2 Billion to Virtualization http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Sun-Commits--2-Billion-to-Virtualization/story.xhtml?story_id=033003ONF579 Sun Introduces Its New Virtualization Offering in San Francisco http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/462102.htm Sun Launches Virtual Assault http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=139308&WT.svl=news2_1 Sun enters a suddenly crowded virtualization market http://www.betanews.com/article/Sun_enters_a_suddenly_crowded_virtualization_market/1195147886 Push Toward Virtualization Continues, with Two-thirds of Large Organizations Considering It Business-Critical, According to New Research from TheInfoPro http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071115006066&newsLang=en VMware refutes Oracle VM performance claims http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid94_gci1282150,00.html Oracle VM Launched http://www.ddj.com/linux-open-source/203100799 VMware Updates Server Software http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/202805757 Sun's New Virtualization Manager Supports Windows, Linux http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2217917,00.asp Desktop Virtualization - What's the Best Approach? http://linux.sys-con.com/read/462343.htm Red Hat strategy spans virtualized & appliance deployments http://www.moneycontrol.com/india/news/pressnews/red-hat-strategy-spans-virtualizedappliance-deployments/13/25/313286 Sun Commits $2 Billion to Virtualization http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Sun-Commits--2-Billion-to-Virtualization/story.xhtml?story_id=10000B5YYZEC Microsoft Windows Virtualization Explained - Video with Microsoft's Distinguished Engineer Eric Traut http://www.dabcc.com/article.aspx?id=6404 Sun Introduces Its New Virtualization Offering in San Francisco http://xml.sys-con.com/read/462102.htm Microsoft Wants a Bigger Slice of VMware's Pie http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2218057,00.asp