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Internet Research Group Publishes New
Report On Virtual Appliances
Los Altos, CA
,
December 1, 2006
–Internet
Research Group (IRG) today announced the release of a new infrastructure
report – Virtual Appliances – Virtualization Intersects Appliances (and
more). Virtual appliances use virtualization technology to abstract an
appliance software image from the hardware while maintaining the packaging
and ease of deployment of a hardware appliance. This report takes an
advanced look at the long term business and industry-wide implications.
“Virtual
appliances are an interesting evolution to network appliances but the
potential applications don’t stop there by any means,” noted Peter Christy,
co-founder of IRG. “Creating complete operating system and application
packages and then being able to deploy them into a virtual infrastructure is
a means, for example, of assembling diverse applications quickly without
necessarily porting them to the same version of the operating system –
consolidation of different vendor offerings. This is as much a system design
epiphany as it is a technical architecture.”
The
study is available now. A table of contents can be found at
www.irg-intl.com. The vendors impacted by this report range broadly
from the existing network appliance vendors (e.g., Cisco, Juniper, Riverbed,
Sourcefire, Packeteer) to application providers (e.g., Ximbra) and platform
vendors (e.g., VMWare/EMC, Microsoft, XenSource, IBM).
The study is available now. A table of
contents for this study can be downloaded by
clicking here.
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About Internet Research Group --
The Internet Research Group (IRG)
provides market research and market strategy services to product and service
vendors. IRG services combine the formidable and unique experience and
perspective of the two principals: John Katsaros and Peter Christy, each an
experienced industry veteran. The overarching mission of IRG is to help
clients make faster and better decisions about product strategy, market
entry, and market development. IRG is located in Los Altos, CA and can be
contacted by phone at 650-559-6222, via the Web at
www.irg-intl.com or via e-mail at
jkatsaros@irg-intl.com. Katsaros and Christy recently published a book
on these topics (Getting It Right the First Time – Praeger, 2005
www.gettingitrightthefirsttime.com ).
Editor’s note: Peter Christy is available to
provide background discussion, quotes or references for articles related to
network infrastructure and security.
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