24. Virtualization
As enterprise data centers continue to rack up servers to slake the insatiable information appetite of the modern business, system administrators struggle with a technical conundrum: how can existing systems be managed more efficiently to save power, space, and cooling costs while continuing to meet the needs of users?
Software vendors have historically discouraged administrators from running their applications with other software, citing potential incompatibilities and in some cases even threatening to discontinue support in cases of noncompliance. The result has been a flood of single-purpose servers. Recent estimates have ...
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