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Federal Roadmap to Your Cloud

by cloudtweaks on October 13, 2011

in Business, Cloud Computing, Computing, Images, IT, SaaS, Security, Storage, Technology, Virtualization, White Papers

Federal Roadmap to Your Cloud Achieve Greater Efficiency and Contain Costs Today, the Federal government operates and maintains approximately 2,100 datacenters, with a mandate to reduce that number by 800 by 2015. With virtualization, this goal is achievable, especially because fewer than 15 percent of Federal x86 servers are currently virtualized, according to recent estimates. If agencies undertook a simple 2:1 server consolidation effort, they could presumably reduce the number of physical x86 servers by half and achieve significant cost savings for this basic effort. Their savings potential, however, is much greater, considering that VMware customers achieve average consolidation ratios

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Server Virtualization: Its Challenges and Benefits

by cloudtweaks on December 31, 2010

in Cloud Computing, Computing, Contributors, Guest Writers, IT, Performance, Security, Technology

Server Virtualization: Its Challenges and Benefits Guest Post By Anup Pal, Vice President, Global Solutions and Support, Symphony Services The adoption of server virtualization is becoming a very common trend in the industry to improve efficiency and availability of IT resources. The trend of having one server/one application is going away, making way for the adoption of virtualization technique that runs multiple operating systems/applications on a single hardware. With this technology in place, costs can be reduced 50 – 70% with respect to hardware and IT administration. Benefits of virtualization include: Multiple operating systems/applications on a single system Improved utilization

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