Virtualization allows you to dream big by leveraging unused resources – a Blog by Thomas F. Guevin

Just as the movie, the Matrix, provoked thought around consciousness and reality, the movie, Inception, provokes thought about dreams and leveraging dreams. For spoiler reasons, I won’t go into the details, but suffice to say, it’s a must see and then a must discuss. In this blog, I wanted to discuss leveraging dreaming as a tool to increase productivity.

In interpreting my own dreams, I’ve come to the opinion that one aspect of dreams is that it is your brain’s way of iterating through situations to better prepare you for possible decisions. In a dream, I saw this and did that and then saw the outcome – so if that situation ever comes up in real life, you have a data point to go by.

I’m a multi-tasker, and I’m always trying to do multiple things in parallel (think Dual Core processing). For example, when I eat dinner, I will cook and start eating at the same time, and wash the dishes while chewing and finishing the meal. Needless to say, I’ve been there and done that when it comes to driving and cell phones – driving into work, doing calls to Europe and driving homes with calls to Hawaii, Russia and Australia – until a thousand dollar cell bill put that on hold. Before I worked at Bluesocket, I did a conference call on a Golf Course – where I was talking and playing at the same time. I actually par’ed a whole with my neck bent, holding a cell phone and talking

I have considered the possibility of leveraging dreams as an extra workday. Go to sleep thinking about a problem, and wake up with the problem solved. Consciously I can’t say for certain that it’s helped, but it does seem that I’ve come up with more fixes and ideas in the morning. I read that Billy Corrigan or Smashing Pumpkins fame, wrote most of his songs in morning shortly after waking, as he would have melodies in his head and wasn’t dogged down by the matters of the day.

One of the corner stones of virtualization is leveraging unused resources – specifically memory and disk space that servers don’t need at a given moment. By virtualizing the vWLAN® solution, we’ve enabled administrators to deploy wireless along side other virtualized resources, leveraging resource pools for shared processing, and gaining other benefits of virtualization (like high availability, easy deployment, and maintainability).

vWLAN’s unique distributed data and centralized control model is also efficient in that it leverages the hardware endpoints – the APs to perform all the data plane activities (firewall, QoS, CoS, Airtime fairness), without sacrificing the admin’s ability to control and manage all the devices and users from a central console. Stay tuned for more technology innovation from Bluesocket that leverages the untapped power of the access point for even more features and functionality in the network.