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AlwaysOn: Virtualization Re-inventing The Data Center |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006
by Michel Roth
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An interesting article on ZDnet.com: Virtualization, along with SOA, multi-core processors and other technologies, is changing the economics of data centers. "It's the biggest thing going on it IT," said Diane Greene, president and founder of virtualization pioneer VMware during a panel at the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit. "It's front and center in the mind of CIOs because they can do a lot more with less."
She gave a number of 27 million servers humming in data centers, and said how virtualization can lead to significant savings in power, cooling and space, and improved security. "It's the most non-disruptive, disruptive technology," she said, referring to the simplicity of virtualizing an environment.
Read the whole article here.
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