So the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit is winding down. It's been a hectic few days. You know that end of conference feeling when everyone is de-mob happy and you really feel for the guy on the graveyard shift (I know I've been there!). Well this time it is David Williams flying the flag for IT Process Automation so I'd better be there!!

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I am writing this at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Management Summit in Florida.

This is the second year Gartner has run this event and for an ISV in the IT Process Automation space it is the Gartner event so we are here in force along with some of our competitors as well as one of our OEM partners Unisys Corporation.

Unisys have licensed our Enigmatec Management System (EMS) as Unisys uOrchestrate™ which is a key component of their Infrastructure Management Suite.

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Earlier today I was in a reflective mood as yet another year draws to a close.

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In a recent Grid Computing Planet article Grid, Virtualization Get Closer Paul Shread highlights research by 451 Group analysts Steve Wallage and William Fellows who in their 2007 Preview - Grid Computing argue that Grid and Virtualization are converging with the former being subsumed by the latter.

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Virtualization is set to play a key role in the next wave of exchange systems. This might seem like a commonplace given the impact virtualization is having elsewhere but there are some subtleties to do with the way electronic trading is implemented that make its application in this area non-trivial. But before we get into this lets look at the history of electronic trading.

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