The 7 Services Virtualization Lacks for Utility Computing
Peter Nickolov | November 15th, 2007 | 4 Comments
by Bert Armijo and Peter Nickolov
Utility computing has gained considerable popularity over the past eighteen months as businesses big and small seek to take advantage of the flexibility the new computing model offers. This hasn’t always been the case, though. For a time, utility computing seemed a lackluster space that hadn’t been able to deliver […]
Interview with 3tera
Jesse Chan | October 29th, 2007 | No Comments
3tera provides a virtual data center solution. Just like VMWare virtualizes physical computers, 3tera’s AppLogic virtualizes entire data centers. This is incredible technology that provides huge time-savings and simplicity. They have brought utility computing to the masses. Now, administrators can manage thousands of machines in an instant. Here is […]
Virtualization
Jesse Chan | August 14th, 2007 | 2 Comments
[Update 8/15/2007: Citrix is in the process of buying XenSource for $500m].
Virtualization is an amazing technology that has been with computing since its infancy. However, in recent years it has reached the mainstream on servers and desktops. Virtualization provides an abstraction of physical computing resources - such as cpu, network, and storage. Hence […]