Even with the incredible traction virtualization is making in the market it’s still easy to get confused as to what virtualization means in every case. Is it server virtualization provided by hypervisors like Xen or ESX? Is it storage virtualization? Network virtualization? Broadly, it's all of the above.

One thing that's clear is that the market for virtualization is growing and maturing, and one advantage of this evolution is that the industry analysts are starting to categorize and differentiate between virtualization technologies and virtualization vendors. This helps us sure, but it also helps customers understand where they are in their own deployments vs. where they can go in the future.
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