Xen: Moving Beyond VMware [Part 1 & 2]

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 13, 2007

From Part 1:

When did you start thinking about virtualizing your x86
systems?

“What we ran up against, and I imagine this happens often in IT
departments, is we had gotten to a point where we just had lots of
servers and our infrastructure was starting to age a little bit and
it was time to do some refreshing. This was in mid or late 2005.
Virtualization was the up-and-coming thing. It made a lot of sense
to us because we wanted our infrastructure to be a little bit more
agile, and then trim down on the number of raw boxes we had in our
racks to make it a little more manageable…”


Complete Story
(Part 1)


Complete Story
(Part 2)

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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