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Re: [News] The Guardian on Microsoft's Shot in Own Foot

__/ [ spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 31 December 2006 13:33 \__

> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
>> It's the end of the line for Microsoft: sorry, Mr Gates, you've just been
>> Googled
> 
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | The other big trend in 2007 will be 'virtualisation' - software which
>> | enables a single computer to run many different operating systems
>> | simultaneously. This makes sense for all kinds of reasons, but the
>> | most important is that the current generation of 'server farms' which
>> | power Google, Amazon, eBay, and so on are financially and
>> | environmentally unsustainable. Enormous sheds filled with thousands
>> | of servers consume too much power, and the only solution is to reduce
>> | the number of physical machines. Virtualisation makes that possible,
>> | which is why it's an irresistible technology.
> 
> Um... running virtual machines is more inefficient than running the real
> thing ffs!
> 
> The only reason they run server FARMS is down to the physical limitations
> of what their machines can handle. Turning one of their servers into a
> machine running 2 virtual machines running a server each would be get less
> than half the throughput a single server machine would have.
> 
> Virtualisation is for running testbeds, for rollout of new software without
> impacting on the host OS and for running different operating systems in a
> known stable envieronment where rollbacks and so on are possible.

What if a Web host wished to share the load between the Linux and Windows
accounts? It's a case of redundancy, too.

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