310 Chapter 5 • Planning for Server Virtualization
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Introduction
Although the concept of virtualization has been around since the early days of com-
puting, the technology has only recently come into its own on a large scale. This has
happened not only as a result of dramatic improvements to the technology itself, but
also due to vast and rapid improvements to supporting hardware technologies such
as memory and disk storage density.
As well this new supporting hardware is becoming available at ever increasing
levels of affordability, meaning that IT managers are finding it that much easier to
rationalize the business arguments behind ...
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