Practical Big Data Analytics

Virtualization

Virtualization—the process of creating isolated, self-contained environments within a larger host, has allowed organizations to consolidate servers and dramatically reduce data center footprints. If, say, an organization leverages six servers for their websites, and of those, two get utilized frequently whereas the others have relatively lower loads most of the time, it may be possible to consolidate all the servers into one or two servers at most. In this regard, technologies from Dell EMC, such as VxBLOCK, are well-known enterprise virtualization hardware used in physical data centers. This also allows companies to create their own private cloud infrastructure. However, it can be fairly expensive and requires the proper assessment ...