Kusnetzky Group, Inc. (www.kusnetzky.net) today posted Application Virtualization and Utopia: Proving the Value of Virtualizing Applications, another position paper intended to review the forces changing the market for information technology in general and virtualization technology in specific. These position papers are written by the world-renown software analyst, Daniel Kusnetzky, who is now the Principal Analyst and President, Kusnetzky Group Inc. This impact paper can be found on the Kusnetzky Group, Inc. website. http://www.kusnetzky.net/publications/ImpactPapers/20070623e_Application_Virtualization_and_Utopia.pdf

Virtualization has become a major catch phrase being bandied about in the business and IT-oriented media today. Due to an amazingly successful marketing campaign by a major supplier of one type of virtualization technology, the media, consultants and some analysts mistakenly equate virtualization with virtual machine software. In reality, virtualization is far more.

What is it really? Virtualization is the use of hardware and software technology to present a logical view of resources to developers, administrators