In this contributed article posted to VMblog, Gluster CTO, AB Periasamy, predicts the future of virtualization for 2011. Specifically he predicts that the cloud will redefine operating systems, stating “In 2011, the operating system (OS) as we currently know it will be categorized as a legacy system. Virtualization and the cloud will cause fundamental changes in the design and composition of the OS, once the innovation reaches a mature stage. We will see the first evidence of this evolved OS in 2011, witnessing its ultimate realization over the next five years.”
Read the full article on VMblog.
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