We all know it takes money to make money, but without any free capital, some IT shops are having a difficult time finding the ROI for server virtualization. A Toronto systems management firm argues why companies should buck this trend and continue making virtual infrastructure investments
Australian city and its integrator used virtualization to cut its servers from 24 to four, dramatically decreasing the amount of time needed for disaster recovery
Virtualization is a model of computing designed to logically bring together a range of disbursed IT hardware devices to create a collective, singularly-functioning supercomputer of sorts. It is only now reaching mainstream status within organizations.
While IT spending is on the rise, high-tech workers shouldn't expect to see a similar increase in overall IT jobs, as new technologies to automate and virtualize data centre resources could make some network administration skills obsolete.