The New Era of Virtualization
There’s very little doubt that Microsoft has done a great job at infiltrating the data center. Walk into any enterprise (well, maybe not Oracle or Red Hat), and you will no doubt find hints of Exchange Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Server among others. These are considered Microsoft’s tier-one applications. In other words, they are applications that businesses consider a critical part of running their day-to-day operations. Ensuring these applications perform optimally, are highly available, and are deployed in a manner that is within the bounds of support statements are the key concerns when deploying any of these applications.
Over the past few years, there’s been a change to the landscape upon which these ...
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