Is qlayer the next generation of virtualization product?

[meistermn]

The qlayer product provides virtualization of server , network and storage in one product with standard x86 servers. One bid avantage is the qsan feature.

http://www.qlayer.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=111

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Interessting: Can anyone the the following price 0.144 USD

One Qlayer storage rack has a total capacity of 64000 GB. The netto available storage for an IP SAN is 53200 GB. The cost per GB is 0.144 USD per month, including hardware, software and operational cost

Roadmap of qlayer

http://software.q-layer.com/display/SOFT/Roadmap

Interessing is paravirtualization for Windows

Version 1.5 - end Q3-2007

Paravirtualized Driver Support For Windows

Results in much faster windows performance (upto a factor 5 faster for network and disk I/O).

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[mreferre]

On paper it's interesting and it would be hard to disagree with their assumption and how they would need to be solved. To me what they do seems to be a mix of what egenera is doing with BladeFrame + all sort of workflow management to integrate all the pieces in the virtualized datacenter.

Going from theory to practical implementation is not as easy as writing a web page though. I think that what they do is too much of a gap between what 99.99% of the customers have today and where they want to move them to. There are a need for more incremental steps (both in technology and mindset) before we get to that point..... otherwise it will remain all on powerpoint.

This is of course just my opinion.

Massimo.

[mreferre · Accepted solution]

BTW there are many other organizations saying the same things:

http://www.fusiondynamic.com/html/dynamic_oe.html

This was one I came across a few weeks ago ....... same comments apply.

Massimo.