CNET News Daily Podcast: Virtualization may be moving mainstream

The era in which virtualization directly affects people beyond corporate IT departments may be on its way.

Leslie Katz Former Culture Editor

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Third place film critic, 2021 LA Press Club National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards

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Leslie Katz

Sept. 4, 2009 12:57 p.m. PT

If you're not affiliated with corporate data centers, you probably haven't given much thought to the term virtualization. But the era in which virtualization directly affects us regular folk may be on its way. CNET News reporter Stephen Shankland, who attended VMWare's VMworld conference in San Francisco this week, explains.

That and other headlines of the day on Friday's CNET News Daily Podcast.

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