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Internet Research Group Publishes
New Report On Virtualization
Los Altos, CA
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August 13, 2007
– Internet Research Group
(IRG) today announced the release of a new infrastructure report –
Virtualization - Advice to Infrastructure Vendors. This is the second
report in IRG’s series of research reports on virtualization. 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.
“Simplistically, a virtual appliance is a physical appliance software image
deployed onto a virtual infrastructure,” noted Peter Christy, co-founder of
IRG. “Virtual Appliances share most of the value propositions of a physical
server but seem to be a very powerful concept and can potentially change the
very way we think about building infrastructure systems such as security or
WAN optimization.”
The study is
available now. The vendors
impacted by this report range broadly from the existing network appliance
vendors (e.g., Cisco, Citrix, F5, Juniper, Packeteer Riverbed, Sourcefire,)
to application providers and platform vendors (e.g., VMWare/EMC, Microsoft,
XenSource, IBM and HP).
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. Katsaros and Christy recently published a
book on high tech business strategy Getting It Right the First Time –
Praeger, 2005
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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