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HP has completed its three-year IT shake up, and has saved around $1 billion in costs, thanks to the skills of Randy Mott, Hewlett Packard’s chief information officer. Mott jumped ship from computer manufacturer Dell back in July 2005, just prior to announcing 14,500 job cuts to balance the books. In a bizarre coincidence, IBM also laid-off 14,500 staff to do exactly the same.

Virtualization pioneer, VMware is looking to break in to the mobile market, and create virtual mobile phone technology in a similar way to the company’s server virtualization technology.

With Windows 7 on the horizon, Microsoft has wowed its fans, and heard some pre-release grumbles from its detractors, but they’ve not really talked about the server-side of the coin.

IBM are offering customers who buy its System x rack servers and Bladecenter blade servers the option of Microsoft’s Windows Datacenter, allowing for unlimited virtualization.

According to new research by web hosting firm Hostway, over three quarters of organisations believe that server virtualization will drive adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS).

The value of virtualization has been found by businesses because of the opportunity it gave legacy applications to continue working without tying up a physical computer.

Quite simply Virtualization is the method of running a pseudo-computer as if it was just another application running on a real computer.