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Simon Crosby: How to Get Server Virtualization Right the First Time
This is from the Feb. 14th update on Enterprise Leadership.
Simon Crosby
CTO at Citrix XenSource
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The power of an X86 server with four array cores has increased dramatically, according to Moore's Law. At the same time, enterprises, through the success of scale-out, now realize that they have more physical servers than they can deal with. This situation has resulted from the IT scalability best practice of installing a single instance of an application per OS on a single scale. Many organizations now find themselves with 1,000 of servers, with increasingly high energy bills, and with no data center space to house these devices.
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