Virtualization Strategies for the CIO
Virtual Datacenter Operating System revealed
Date: Sep 17, 2008
VMware's Bogomil Balkansky explains the new Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS), VMware's new "internal cloud."
Virtual Datacenter Operating System revealed
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