The World after Processor and Bandwidth Abundance

I've read George Gilder's essays on how every cycle of technology innovation and disruption has been unleashed when a company figures out how to use a cheap resource to produce a product that is expensive to create using traditional methods. This applies very well to Virtualization - there is an abundance of Cheap CPU processing power (powered by multi core processor based servers, networked into commercially available computer grids like Amazon EC2) and Nearly infinite storage space that costs nothing. VMWare figured out very early on how to to use cheap and abundant CPU cycles to produce better utilization, reliability and performance which are horrendously expensive to improve using conventional software based methods.

Now with LAN like connectivity available in last mile home and office connections (think FIOS), it's quite possible that we will finally figure out how to virtualize the windows desktop and stick it in a data center. When VDI fulfills its potential, cheap CPUs, cheap storage and cheap bandwidth will come together to offer desktop security, management, upgrades and mobility with seamless ease. All of these outcomes are today expensive and clunky when implemented through traditional software techniques.

VMware VDI itself is a generation behind, the term VDI itself has started to encompass a more holistic, across enterprise vision of putting all desktop images and applications in the data center, but with the ability to support mobile and power users with customization and niche application consumption needs.

Atlantis Blog Reprise

Hello Everyone, welcome to the new Atlantis Blog, its grown up, mission critical and carrier grade.

Since Early 2007 we've re-invented our company to focus on the Fortune 500 Enterprise IT market. As a result we taken all the innovation we'd created to enable SAAS and re-purposed it to to enable Enterprise IT to virtualize all their application and desktops infrastructure centrally and deliver it where ever it needs to be consumed.

Our technology is pretty interesting - it provides virtualization at 3 levels -

• Machine Partitioning - Creating multiple Virtual Machines through the use of the VMware Hypervisor
• OS Partitioning - Allowing OS resources to be intelligently multiplexed to application workloads on demand.
  
• Application Sandboxing - Applications themselves run in locked down virtual containers that can intelligently redirect Application resources as well as state changes to persist in a sandbox rather than edit or change the underlying Operating System.

Put these three levels of virtualization together and you gain the ability to instantiate desktops and applications by combining applications, Operating System Images and End user data at run time (Just in Time). This means that you can have a single desktop os image (say Windows XP) and bind that to different applications (MS office for one user group and SAP for another) at runtime when the user connects to the virtual infrastructure.

Differentiate this from the current State of Art in VDI - a template OS image with baked in applications for each use case which is physically cloned for every end user. With Atlantis Unity you can create a unique desktop by bringing together a common desktop OS image, end user apps and storage (all based on a user profile stored in AD) in real-time.

The same dynamic desktop and virtual application can be delivered as a published desktop or application via Terminal Services or as Streamed applications that can be cached for offline use on the end user's desktop.

More posts to follow on our technology, but at this time, I'd like to emphasize the single biggest benefit we deliver is that we allow all of an Enterprises desktop and applications to migrate to the data center where it can be easily and securely managed without disrupting the end users experience. And that is no simple feat.