Intel wishes virtualisation didn't exist

Here's an interesting tidbit about vPro vendors Intel: they wish the technology they now enthusiastically tout had never been invented.

At a cloud conference I attended today, Intel's EMEA director of enterprise marketing, Alan Priestley, was on one of the panels. Introducing him, the panel chair mischievously noted that Priestley had suggested to him over lunch that "in a perfect world, virtualisation wouldn't exist".

Clearly less than thrilled at this aside being reported to the assembled delegates, Priestley went on to add: "I'd love it if [virtualisation] never happened, but the market shifted — it's one of the things that happened."

Quite.