An Overview of Virtualization Technology

Jane Walker writes to tell us that TechTarget has a short writeup on virtualization and some of the ins and outs of using this technology effectively. From the article: "Virtualization is a hot topic in the enterprise space these days. It's being touted as the solution to every problem from server proliferation to CPU underutilization to application isolation. While the technology does indeed have many benefits, it's not without drawbacks."

Re:Good reading until the end

[Kangburra]

Just seems like TFA lost coherency after 'What's best?' It went from really informative to misleading rather quickly. If your going to go to a virtualized platform you owe it to yourself to spend a month trying each candidate to see what works best for you, not the author of whatever article you read :) This is not a pro Xen rant but I'd like to point out that it does install effortlessly on most Debian systems in under an hour, the TFA sort of indicated otherwise.

That's when the phone call from Redmond came through.

Re:previous hot topic: virtual reality

[Ohreally_factor]

It's for this reason that virtualization is mostly hype, and won't be accepted in the enterprise. IT departments have better things to do with their budgets than to buy fancy VR goggles and data gloves for their admins.

Re:Netscaping

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Well, to really be Netscaping, VMWare would have to put out a completely unusable version 4.