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Rich Wolski, UCSB professor and CTO of recently-established Eucalyptus Systems, discusses the company

Like the notion of soup to nuts, virtualization is a technology term that encompasses everything from servers and storage to applications and operating systems. While the concepts have been employed in the mainframe and Unix space, companies are bringing the technology to the x86 and Windows worlds in a big way.

Since the first serve of the 2005 U.S. Open Tennis Championships on Monday, IBM has been using virtualization technologies to distribute data processing workloads between the three IT centers managing traffic to the USOpen.org Web site.

In the year ahead, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., and Hewlett-Packard Co. will bolster their utility-computing initiatives by upgrading key products.