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9 articles classés sous Virtualisation.
You Can’t Virtualize That!
We get this all of the time in IT, a vendor tells us that a system cannot be virtualized. The reasons are numerous. On the IT side, we are always shocked that a vendor would make such an outrageous…
The Commoditization of Architecture
I often talk about the moving “commodity line”, this line affects essentially all technology, including designs. Essentially, when any new technology comes out it will start highly proprietary…
Decision Point: VDI and Terminal Services
Two basic concepts vie for prominence, if technologies care about prominence, when it comes to remote graphical desktop interfaces: VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) and terminal services. The…
Virtualizing Even a Single Server
I find it very common in conversations involving virtualization to have the concept of consolidation, which in the context of server virtualization refers to putting multiple formerly physical…
The Inverted Pyramid of Doom
The 3-2-1 model of system architecture is extremely common today and almost always exactly the opposite of what a business needs or even wants if they were to take the time to write down their…
When to Consider a Private Cloud?
The idea of running a private cloud, hosted or on premise, for a single company is rapidly becoming a commonplace one. More and more businesses are learning of cloud computing and seeing that running…
Virtualization as a Standard Pattern
Virtualization as an enterprise concept is almost as old as business computing is itself. The value of abstracting computing from the bare hardware was recognized very early on and almost as soon as…
Linux Virtualization Deployment Advantage
As more and more businesses begin to deploy virtualization broadly, we must begin to step back and reconsider the opportunities presented to us by this shift in datacenter architecture…
Virtualization for Small Business
In the last year or two we have seen virtualization go from a poorly understood concept to a much-hyped industry buzz word being bantered about constantly in every conversation involving technology…