Every once in a while, the world of IT sees a technological breakthrough and suddenly, everything's changed.

We went through this back in the days when VMware revolutionized IT by breaking down the "one server, one application" model we all took as the necessary status quo. The inefficiencies and inflexibility of that model were obvious in retrospect. But they weren't so obvious when that's what everyone did.

It took a few years, but virtualization went from an unproven idea to a mainstream capability. The benefits of it were so clear-cut that everyone jumped on the bandwagon and started virtualizing.

Today, virtualization is a mature technology, and everyone is doing it. It's become the new status quo. And like the old status quo, it seems fine, until something disruptive emerges that's better.

And now, something better IS emerging. And it may be the technological breakthrough you've been looking for.

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