BANGALORE, INDIA: EMC, a provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions, today announced that the company 's chairman, president and CEO Joe Tucci has predicted that virtualization will become the foundation for cloud computing.

Tucci and VMware president and CEO Paul Maritz kicked off EMC World 2009 with a keynote to thousands of IT administrators, customers, technologists, analysts and journalists about the mega trends currently shaping the IT industry, including the emergence of private cloud computing that virtual data centers enable, said a press release.

"Traditional data centers are very static – each application has its own infrastructure – no matter what its workload," said Tucci.

He added that in a virtual data center, resources are provisioned as needed. This is the type of environment customers are bridging to today. The transformation to a private cloud – a dynamic, efficient, on-demand and flexible resource – is taking place now. There are very few, if any, applications that can't work efficiently in a virtual or cloud environment and that is accelerating the move to virtualized data centers."

Maritz said, "By and large, new applications are no longer being written to traditional operating systems."

He further said that the new frameworks that people are programming allow them to find out in a much more natural way what the application is doing, and they can then use the information to make management better and use underlying resources - whether it is servers, networks or storage - more efficiently because they have deeper insight into the application.

Martiz continued that whether you want to call it the software mainframe or the private cloud, the concept is the same. How do you get this aggregation of resources to become fundamentally more dynamic, more flexible and more efficient? To do that you have to work in conjunction with those resources, you have to signal information down to them and get information back from them so that you can take the right steps necessary before you start sliding things around.

EMC World, from May 18-21 is a comprehensive educational forum.

It provides attendees with access to learn, challenge, explore and connect experts from EMC and over 100 partners, discussing and demonstrating the technologies and strategies that help customers get the maximum value from their information and their information infrastructures, added the release.