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Analysis of Server Consolidation in the Data Center: VMware Vs. Virtuozzo

Category: Data Management, IT Management

Overview The reduction of the physical number of servers in a modern-day IT organization, otherwise known as "server consolidation," is of utmost importance to IT managers, who are forced to look for ways to reduce the time and money associated with maintaining their hardware and software. The apparent leader in this emerging field is IBM, with vast experience supporting multiple machine partitions using mainframe technologies. IBM is coupling the Open Source Linux OS with the mainframe in an attempt to push Linux server consolidation onto their zSeries. Sun Microsystems has also entered the server consolidation field with their high-end enterprise servers using a dynamic domain partitioning technology.

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Publisher: Parallels (formerly SWsoft)
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Mar 29, 2008
Format: White Papers
Topics: Data Center, Server Consolidation

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