WA Councils Go Virtual with Linux, Xen | Linux Today

WA Councils Go Virtual with Linux, Xen

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 4, 2007

“Three local government shires in Western Australia have adopted
the open source Xen virtualization technology to Windows servers on
Linux hosts and reduce its need for physical machines.

“The Dardanup, Harvey, and Donnybrook/Balingup local government
councils in Western Australia have a central IT support
infrastructure and, according to IT officer Stephen Eaton, required
a simple way of deploying and managing its Windows servers…”

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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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