Enterprise Networking Planet: Fill Linux to the Brim with Xen

“The flood of inexpensive x86 PC hardware that overwhelmed the
computing world seduced us into accumulating coveys of cheap little
single-purpose servers and unmanageable gaggles of desktops and
workstations. We sysadmins have been paying for it ever since.
Instead of having small herds of nice docile mammoths to supervise,
we got roped into running large herds of cats. But, as is the way
of humanity, the pendulum has swung, the circle has turned, the
karma has paid off and good old-fashioned client-server computing
is teh hawt again…”

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