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We were direct at first, like any early-stage company. We are now working with application vendors, and are recruiting resellers with data center experience, server and storage virtualization experience or experience in certain markets. A formal reseller program will be rolled out pretty quickly.

Mike Grandinetti

What this means is that Windows becomes the platform for virtualization. Customers will consolidate existing systems to Windows using virtual technology. This is very compelling to our customer base.

Bob Kelly

Server consolidation is the most obvious, long-standing use case, but virtualization is like a Swiss army knife. You can use it in a number of different situations.

Raghu Raghuram

Companies are getting much more comfortable with running Linux in the data center as they move off of Solaris, HP-UX, or AIX, and they recognize they need the power of virtualization to help them manage increasing sever sprawl.

Mike Grandinetti

This gave us more than 50 percent reduction in hosting cost and also allowed us to build a new Web-hosting environment with virtualization capability. The new technology gave us the capability to rewrite 900 pages of content within five months.

Guru Vasudeva

This is an end-to-end strategy and not a point strategy. Microsoft believes that customers are looking for ways to adopt virtualization on the route to dynamic systems, and so our strategy is the Dynamic Systems Initiative, with dynamic systems the end game. And the way customers get there is very important.

Bob Kelly

Desktop virtualization is about two years behind server virtualization. It's a completely different trend. While server virtualization is about saving money and consolidation, on the desktop it's much more about isolation, about being able to do different things on the same machine.

Tom Bittman

Our goal is to help OEMs create a new class of virtualization solutions for small and medium enterprises. The new class of solutions would consist of the same OEM software (snapshot, replication, etc.) ported onto a high-performance, low-cost hardware platform.

Frank Berry

Virtualization today is one of the hot topics in storage management. It offers hope to alleviate many of the operational and cost pains associated with the acquisition and ongoing administration of an increasingly complex storage world.

Tony Lock

It's free but it's not an entry-level product. It's a path for enterprise-level virtualization. As people experience the initial benefits, they'll very quickly migrate to full deployments.

Dan Chu

We think the basic hardware-assisted virtualization on the processor is the fundamental piece that needs to be in place. We agree that I/O virtualization is a natural follow-on, but we think we can make a lot of headway in improving virtualization with this first step.

Lorie Wigle

There was an immediate benefit to virtualization, ... We went from 12 servers in two data centers to two servers in one data center and no performance hit.

David Grant

EMC has had pieces of virtualization.

Joe Clabby

Intel Virtualization Technology provides a foundation for Virtual Iron to efficiently create new and better software capabilities that build upon Intel's platform innovation. By supporting Intel Virtualization Technology in its products, Virtual Iron is helping to increase flexibility and reduce total cost of ownership for its enterprise customers.

Diane Bryant

We are starting out with releasing VT on a single-core Pentium because some government and IT agencies have standards that do not validate dual core as of yet and we want them to still take advantage of virtualization.

Chad Taggard

We've seen virtualization go mainstream over the last couple of years. But there are still a ton of companies out there that haven't tried it. We're focused on changing that landscape  we want to bring virtualization to every user.

Dan Chu

You can now enable virtualization technology in your servers and start running it in your testing and development environments.

Diane Bryant

I don't know that I want to expose too much, but if you look at the various technologies we've been acquiring, you can start to figure out how model-based architectures and virtualization technologies and global name space technologies all fit into ... a grid infrastructure.

Brian Baird

Our experience over seven or eight years has been that when customers start using virtualization, they have a preliminary notion of what virtualization is. But once they get in and start using it, they see it's like a Swiss Army knife, and they can use it in many different ways.

Raghu Raghuram

The volume server market continues to evolve as richer server configurations driven by both scale-out cluster implementations and scale-up server virtualization initiatives continue to drive increased customer spending.

Matthew Eastwood

We're going to bring virtualization to all users out there.

Dan Chu

Until now, the virtualization market has been dominated by high-end solutions consisting of software (snapshot, replication, etc.) running on high-end chassis hardware (Cisco).

Frank Berry

These hardware instructions [for virtualization] are pretty complex, and were really designed to support server systems. We can optimize [the feature] for real-time.

Michel Gien

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment.

Sir Walter Scott

We expect both the rate of customer adoption and ecosystem building to accelerate even further in 2006. Concurrent with accelerated customer adoption, hardware vendors, OEMs, and software vendors are aggressively building products and solutions that enable and facilitate server virtualization.

Raghu Raghuram