New Virtualization Technologies

bob weinstein - April 13, 2009 The 2006 BusinessWeek story laid the groundwork for virtualization breakthroughs during the past few years. It pointed up growing problems, such as a dramatic increase in traffic and rising energy costs, forcing companies to overhaul the way they design and run computer facilities. The reporter stated: “Everyone from governments to major corporations to your Great-Aunt Edna now relies on a vast, growing list of services.”

The huge increase of traffic had forced many companies to rethink the way they manage Net offerings, and even overhaul information technology strategies. The object of pending changes was the data center, which was crowded with servers that run web sites and corporate networks.

Harnessing virtual power
The new model that analysts projected for IT was not centered around IT projects, but around disparate pieces of hardware linked to create a more sophisticated backbone that’s able to run most applications and also be configured to be expanded or altered to meet future needs. In 2006, James Geis, director of integrated solutions development at Boston IT consulting firm Forsythe Solutions, said virtualization technologies had come a long way. Evaluating capacity was once difficult. But thanks to perfecting capacity management tools, the task has been simplified and become a mainstream means for resource planning.
Geis also noted that …

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