In a recent post by Alan on the Virtual Data Center entitled Provisioning for Election Application Traffic, the author expresses surprise that none of the companies interviewed said they were relying on virtualization.
“I’m scratching my head, too with respect to why these companies aren’t leveraging virtualization or some type of virtual server internally – the technology is certainly mature enough.
On the other hand, it’s certainly understandable that they aren’t bursting into public Clouds like Joyent and BlueLock because the tools to do this aren’t quite ready for primetime - but they’re feverishly being built as we speak.
For those who didn’t attend VMWorld 2008 in Vegas, here’s a sneek peek at the VCloud tools that VMware is readying to ship in 2009. Paul Maritz, the CEO of VMware did a live demonstration of an environment coming under distress and “bursting” into a public or “off premise” cloud.
“I’m scratching my head, too with respect to why these companies aren’t leveraging virtualization or some type of virtual server internally – the technology is certainly mature enough.
On the other hand, it’s certainly understandable that they aren’t bursting into public Clouds like Joyent and BlueLock because the tools to do this aren’t quite ready for primetime - but they’re feverishly being built as we speak.
For those who didn’t attend VMWorld 2008 in Vegas, here’s a sneek peek at the VCloud tools that VMware is readying to ship in 2009. Paul Maritz, the CEO of VMware did a live demonstration of an environment coming under distress and “bursting” into a public or “off premise” cloud.
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