Techworld: Ghosts in the Machine

“What started simply as a way to consolidate older,
out-of-warranty servers has quickly turned into a new
infrastructure building block in Qualcomm’s data centre. Virtual
machines (VM) have risen to become a corporate standard for
deploying and managing x86-based servers at the semiconductor
maker. ‘We saved in the seven-figure range by not buying servers.
Going forward, we’re continuing to consolidate, and we’re pushing
everything we can into the virtual space,’ says Norm Fjeldheim,
senior vice president and CIO at the San Diego-based
company…”

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