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Industry Legend Mitchell Kertzman's 2005 Prediction On Virtualization Comes True

Powersoft founder gets it right – again
By Jeremy Geelan
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February 19, 2007 03:15 PM EST
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At the end of 2005, 30,000+ SYS-CON.com readers enjoyed the benefits of industry legend Mitchell Kertzman's prescience about virtualization. Already back then, Kertzman – now at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners but still famous for having been the founder and CEO of Powersoft, which merged with Sybase in February 1995 – was clear how central a role virtualization was about to start playing in the IT landscape.


"With three strong virtualization platforms (VMware, Microsoft Virtual Server and XenSource) now available," Kertzman declared, "there will be more and more software products built not on traditional hardware/software platforms, but on virtualized platforms." 

He advised readers, for example,  to "Check out Akimbi Systems, which provides a very exciting application for QA and test in the enterprise."

Now virtualization is so hot an IT topic that there's even an entire Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 devoted to it. As the panel above shows.

Published February 19, 2007 – Reads 16,710
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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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