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The great tech blog Ars Technica announced about two weeks ago that it would host a brand new community program in collaboration with Intel, dubbed ‘Directions: a Web Symposium’.
This week’s topic of the Directions Symposium is centered around virtualization and server consolidation. Intel has rounded up ten of their top virtualization experts, including a few Intel Principal Engineers, for participation in the new round of conversations.
Jump in if you’re interested!
Insightful post by Arthur Cole over at ITBusinessEdge about server consolidation and virtualization. Cole argues that server consolidation done the right way remains the primary driver for most data centers.
But as those who have already taken the virtual plunge have no doubt realized, consolidating servers is not just a simple matter of powering up the virtualization layer and then pulling equipment out of racks. There is a long list of factors to consider with any centralization project and a wide range of land mines that need to be avoided to prevent service failures.
Cole refers to four interesting articles about server consolidation:
Read the whole article here.
The interview below is part of our Virtualization Video Series, a recurring theme we want to implement on Virtualization.com featuring interviews with key players from the industry, event reports, etc.
This interview was recorded at VMWorld Europe 2008 in Cannes, France, and features Chuck Tatham, VP Marketing & Business Development with CiRBA.
We apologize for a minor glitch in sound from around the 1:10 mark until the 1:20 mark.
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Interviewer: Tarry Singh
Video blogger: Charbax