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:IT-Analysis: Linux To Become A De Facto Standard
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Jul 16, 2003, 22 :00 UTC (5 Talkback[s]) (7460 reads)

(Other stories by Robin Bloor)

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, among others, are creating an imperative. Their infrastructure initiatives, entitled respectively; On Demand, Adaptive Enterprise and N1, are all quite similar and aimed at the idea of virtualising the hardware layer. The primary reason for wanting to virtualise hardware is this; in the last five years or so companies have been buying servers in an ad hoc manner, tending to deploy them on a one server per application basis.

"Consequently, they assembled server farms which turn out to have an average hardware utilization of about 20 percent. This is, of course, a waste of money and, in the long run, a management headache. However there are other imperatives, particularly the idea of being able to provide infrastructure as a service--dynamically, i.e. you pay for what you use and you get what you need when you need it..."

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Linux is perfect for this, just one prob ...   Distributions   
Lennie
Jul 16, 2003, 23:34:11
 
> The primary reason for wanting to virt ...   The irony of it all!   
Eric Laffoon
Jul 17, 2003, 00:24:10
 
Buying and deploying servers in an "ad h ...   Cuts both ways...   
Colin Mattoon
Jul 17, 2003, 15:28:20
 
> Buying and deploying servers in an "ad ...   Re: Cuts both ways...   
Rufus Polson
Jul 17, 2003, 16:37:17
 
Outsourcing should be restricted to thin ...   On outsourcing   
phil
Jul 17, 2003, 17:42:34
 
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