Elastic IT resources transform data centers - Network World

Elastic IT resources transform data centers - Network World: "Private clouds will need a meta operating system to manage all of an enterprise's distributed resources as a single computing pool, Gartner analyst Thomas Bittman said, arguing that the server operating system relied upon so heavily today is undergoing a transition. Virtualization became popular because of the failures of x86 server operating systems, which essentially limit each server to one application and waste tons of horsepower, he says. Now spinning up new virtual machines is easy, and they proliferate quickly."