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There is a lot of potential in the development of the OVF standard, especially since it supports the ability to create open environment virtual machine/virtual appliance content. See how the toolkit for Open Virtualization Format standard (OVF), an open, secure, portable, efficient, and extensible format can help you package and distribute the software you want to run on virtual machines.

This article discussed how the concepts around cloud computing naturally lend themselves to AIX and Power Systems. Some of the drivers include: virtualization (PowerVM), RAS, availability offerings, as well as new feature/functionality of both AIX and POWER servers. Cloud computing appears to have a bright future ahead of it, and POWER servers driven by AIX (and Linux) stand to be a big part of that future.