What is Cloud Computing?
Cloud computing is becoming a buzzword. It refers to a computing system in which tasks are assigned through a combination of connections, service and software over a network. This collective of connections is known as ‘the cloud’. Computing at this level allows users to sort through a vast amount of data. For example, Google is currently the forerunner of cloud computing due to its need to produce accurate and instant results for the millions of search queries it receives every day. Other companied have developed web based operating systems that look and feel like Windows.
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What can Citrix virtualization do for you?
Traditionally distributed computing is beginning to collapse under the weight of its own complexity. Over time it has grown increasingly unmanageable, overburdened with applications, devices, mobile technologies and even government regulations. In traditional distributed computing, too many components are inflexibly hard coded together, applications are installed on specific hardware and in many organizations, conflicts among operating systems, devices and applications are endless.
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What is Virtualization?
Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. Today’s powerful x86 computer hardware was designed to run a single operating system and a single application. This leaves most machines vastly underutilised. Virtualization lets you run multiple virtual machines on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments.
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The Benefits of Virtualisation
So why virtualise? Because everyone else seems to be doing it? I hope not! Most server systems are under-utilised; general estimates say that an average Windows server is running at around 15% utilisation and UNIX environments at about 20-30%. That’s pretty low. In order to gain a more personal analysis, I ran a small audit of six servers. All run Linux and host various high-demand services such as mail serving, mail routing/scanning, file serving, web services and database hosting. The results were interesting.
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