&gt; The funny thing is, virtualization is dying. All of the large private datacenters these days are non-virtualized bare metal on commodity hardware<p>This is wrong on so many levels. Virtualization is, and will continue to be, a integral part of datacenters. First and foremost, it enables you to deploy one single image to any machine you have, if you need computation nodes. Or it enables you to have multiple VMs on the same hardware. Both of those apply to commodity and server hardware a like.