The Future of Virtualization
Posted 6 March 2008 @ 8am | Tagged elasticserver, thoughts, virtualization
Take a peek over at the CohesiveFT Elastic Server blog for a cool riff on the history and future of virtualized computing.
…you can attain true server agility because you are doing “Zero to Virtual”; building from component libraries straight to virtual servers in any VM format, with no initial physical footprint. The big win here is you are able to do “lean” provisioning. You use a small footprint OS (one you have configured, or Red Hat AOS, or Ubuntu JEOS, or one of the small footprint OS’s for use in virtualized servers) as the base of the server. This means smaller surface area of attack vulnerabilities, streamlined administration, no over-provisioning of then unused commercial licenses, and more virtual servers per physical hardware. A knock-on effect of these lean machines is greater mobility, more easily allowing leverage of utility or cloud infrastructures.
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