A New Generation of Branch Office IT Solutions: Has Virtualization Triggered Another Revolution? by Cisco Systems, Inc.
In February 2008 Cisco and Microsoft announced that they were bringing a new product to market that would use virtualization technology to incorporate a Windows Server 2008® system within a Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) WAN Optimization appliance. Virtualization has already had a profound impact on the cost efficiency and quality of data center computing by enabling consolidation, but this was one of the first announced branch office uses of virtualization to integrate what would be considered communications functions with server functions. The Internet Research Group with help from both Cisco and Microsoft has explored the potential for this interesting new catego...