IT Forum: Virtualisation market needs choice

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"The move towards hardware-based virtualisation is going to help deliver a richer, more transparent user experience, and we fully support the efforts of both major chip makers to introduce virtualisation capabilities into their hardware," added Mike Neil, general manager of virtualisation strategy at Microsoft.

Demand for improved use of PC and server resources has created an explosion if interest in virtualisation on both desktop and server computers, with the likes of SWSoft spin-off Parallels making waves among Mac users by allowing them to run virtual Windows and Linux instances within Mac OS, while on the server side Microsoft and Citrix are being joined by Oracle and IBM, among others in trying to tap demand for software that will make maximum use of data centre resources.

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