[Info-vax] Next Generation Fork in Road for VMware and Virtualization

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Sunday, 4 September 2016 16:05:04 UTC+1, Kerry Main  wrote:
> Interesting article on upcoming fork in the road for
> VMware .. 
> http://www.nextplatform.com/2016/09/02/vmwares-embrace-ext
> end-strategy/
> 
> Also talks about how:
> - IBM was challenged by DEC, how it responded and the
> current fall-out from its response (very similar
> complexity of offerings fallout applied to HP)
> - Photon Platform, which is intended for greenfield
> installations where VMware shops want to move away from
> server virtualization to have a clean-slate container
> environment
> - containers within VM's is a real challenge
> - public cloud providers need to stark looking at private
> cloud offerings as well
> 
> Imho, in the next few years, as local TB non-volatile
> memory starts becoming available at much cheaper levels
> than today, because it is kind of a mid-point between
> dedicated containers on physical HW and separate VM's for
> each OS instance, application stacking is going to be
> getting closer looks as an alternative compute model
> strategy.
> 
> ... back to the future IT 
> 
> :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kerry Main
> Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com

Back to the future also in product naming.

Photon was (is?) QNX's name for the graphical environment for their
Neutrino microkernel:
http://www.qnx.com/developers/docs/6.4.1/neutrino/sys_arch/photon.html

I wonder what (if any) relationship exists between VMware's Photon
and QNX (ie Blackberry's?) Photon. VMware's Photon seems compatible
with a lot more modern buzzwords than QNX's:
http://blogs.vmware.com/cloudnative/introducing-photon/