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ITBusiness.ca: Vancouver Community College Phases in More Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 22, 2006

“A B.C. post-secondary institution said it intends to grow the
number of Linux machines in its data centre as it replaces older
hardware infrastructure with blade servers.

“Vancouver Community College made the switch to Linux from a
mixed environment of NetWare and Windows operating systems one year
ago when it purchased IBM blade servers, which came with Linux
pre-installed, to replace its aging infrastructure. Novell’s Suse
Linux Enterprise Server 9 now accounts for over 50 per cent of
VCC’s server environment, which has 40 physical servers and double
that number of virtual machines…”


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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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