What's next for virtualisation?

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Indeed, moving to the cloud isn’t easy if your systems are sitting on virtual servers. It may be easy enough to run development and new projects in the cloud, but everything that’s sitting on hardware is going to take some work before it can move off-site.

But virtualised systems are already in a nice little bubble and they’re already used to being moved around. The cloud is just another place to move to.

“Virtualisation is one of the few technologies – the only technology – which can really provide the evolutionary path to that change,” said Martiz, speaking at the conference.

Interoperability and open source

VMware acquired SpringSource earlier this year, and plans to keep it focused on open source. Maritz et al also frequently reference the song Hotel California – although they often get the title and lyrics incorrect – noting the “you can check out any time you want, but you can never leave” is the exact opposite of what companies want to do with their data.

“We think there’s a distant and growing role for open source,” according to Martiz, who suggested that most companies use a hybrid of open source and proprietary software.

He predicted that the elements of virtualisation most directly facing developers will stay or become open source.

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