Comments on Gartner Top 10 technology list

Just before its annual symposium event, Gartner published a list of the Top 10 strategic technologies in 2008. We wanted to add our perspective because SWsoft plays is a significant role in three of those areas. We welcome your comments with your perspective.

Green IT – Higher density means fewer servers and the lowest possible power consumption. Virtuozzo providers several times higher density – number of workloads running on a single server – as compared with VMware or XEN. Take a look at the
customer testimonies here.

Virtualization 2.0 – According to Gartner, 2.0 means supplementing virtualization technology with automation – which is exactly what SWsoft has been delivering since 1999. In fact, back in 1999, Virtuozzo was developed as a part of our automation suite. Many virtualization companies started with solving an interesting engineering problem of virtualizing a non-virtualizeable computer architecture. Now, as they have the hammer, they are looking for the nails. At SWsoft, we first looked at the issues in the large scale data centers and then created a solution, where virtualization and automation work together.

Web Platform and WOA - This is a real 2.0 for us – SWsoft 2.0, if you will. We are trying, with our Open Fusion initiative and a set of SaaS enabling technologies, to help transform the web hosting industry into a SaaS delivery industry. It seems our message of automation and virtualization as equally important pillars of the SaaS infrastructure is finally getting through. However, there is a lot more work ahead to make the transformation a reality.