Being open minded

We recently had an exercise where we had to give information on setting up virtual environment.  I knew of a couple but my mind was tilted to the cloud.  I did a lot of reading on the cloud and setting up the cloud and all the cloud software that you need to accomplished the scenario that was presented.  then while going through my instructors blog again  I happen to click a link for Gigaspaces and there I read about XAP 8.0 a new product produce by an old company.  It is a single product that when used creates the precise scenario of my exercise.  I put a lot of time in my investigation but there is still a lot of products out there you just have to keep your mind open and not rely on your first choice.