Virtualization Can Save the Nation
Anyone in the far less about what virtualization can do for their business, but I speak to those in leadership roles or those responsible for budgets or simply crawled under the rocks and decided to stay at ‘gap, the sun is not that scary after all. Take a few minutes to explain how virtualization may have a significant impact on your staff, your budget, your business and yes, even the nation.
Let’s start with the basics, what is virtualization? To be honest with you, this is really nothing new. For almost as long as we had the computer / server, we virtualization. It is simply the ability to run multiple applications on one piece of equipment running at once. A few years ago, for various reasons (stability, performance, segmentation, etc. ..) the best practices of industry came with an unwritten rule for the x86 platform: 1 application per server. The power and RISC platforms never complied with this rule, but in the x86 world was the norm, lead to server proliferation. Tons and tons of pizza box servers running at 10% utilization. Need a new application, get a new server. Somewhere along the way people started thinking, ‘Wow, it sure is hot in the server space. ” Here’s a little tip: If you are in your server room to warm you up, you have too many servers and not enough control climate.
