Fast Storage, New Standards, And More Software Will Arrive In 2011

摘要

Google's Android And Apple's iOS will continue to battle in the smart-phone and tablet arena (see "Google's Android Versus Apple's iOS: And The Winner Is ? " at electronicdesign.com). But there's a lot more that will be going on in the embedded space. The cloud is full of virtual machines, and developers working on tying embedded network devices to enterprise servers will have more options this year for providing complete solutions like Eurotech's Cloud Devices. The cloud offers developers the opportunity to test and deploy server-side resources on demand for supported remote devices. Virtualization on servers is taken for granted these days given the move to multicore and clustering. Many of the tools that are commonly used in high-availability systems like MontaVista's Carrier Grade Edition 6.0 will be finding their way into areas outside the communication space since it isn't the only application area that will require high reliability. New features like bare-metal virtualization are useful in a wider range of platforms.