Historically things that need to go “faster” tend to get their own dedicated solution (e.g. offload/accelerators), that is unless there’s some disruptive technology that changes the game.

Virtual appliances may truly be needed as cloud/virtualization grows, but is that the only and best option? What if every underlying HW platform (e.g. datacenter servers) had these inherent capabilities?

Another thing I’d like to see is strong hardware accelerator support with Vmotion, HA, etc for SSL/crypto and also for TPM keystores.

The notion there is that, esp. in an internal DC, instead of having a plethora of enforcement policies, these can still be managed fewer albeit high performance devices.