Mind bending escher image courtesy of PopartUK I’m a bit excited, infact I’m a lot excited.   I saw an email today, and then it all hit home.  The email was from one of the product teams announcing internal availability of a new technology.  It’s one of the technologies that really make me go "phwaar".  (And I thought it was phwaar even before my life here at VMware) — and the phwaar is getting closer, every day. 

It’s all NDA type stuff, but that doesn’t matter.  Ok, so maybe the word "matter" is the wrong word.  Why?  Because "internal", will eventually mean it will become beta, and beta’s turn into RTM. 

How can I explain it better?  It’s kind of like Christmas.  You know it’s coming; you can expect [it] all year long, but it’s not until the Christmas decorations go up and the presents start arriving under the tree, that it really sinks in.  Then once it arrives, it’s a flurry of wrapping paper, and eagerness, and, and   …well you know the rest of the story.

Anyway.  It’s such a such a simple, (some might mistake it as almost trivial) technology, but it’s so fundamentally exciting that it will change the rules of "traditional computing" [again] completely.  …and the coolest bit, just when you thought you had a handle on it, the next wave will come along and completely knock your socks off!

Virtualization is sooo much more than server consolidation, it’s tired of hiding in the server room, it’s coming baby.

Phwaaar!