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Friday, February 4, 2011

Feature: Virtualization in the trenches with VMware, Part 1: Basics and bene...

via Ars Technica by editors@arstechnica.com (Ars Staff) on 2/3/11

IT in the enterprise is as much about technology as it is about people, processes, and business needs. In a five-part series, we will cover some of the challenges faced when trying to design and deploy a virtualization platform for a sizable enterprise and migrate its infrastructure into the cloud. This usually ends up being a far larger undertaking than imagined, partly due to technical challenges, but mostly due to having to make careful selections at every step of the way.

For reasons I'll cover in a moment, this series focuses on VMware. There are some fantastic alternatives to VMware out there, but VMware was the package that best suited my own company's needs. However, much of the discussion in this series can easily be applied to other virtualization platforms.

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