What is a Container? A Container is a set of processes (applications and their dependencies) that can be isolated from the rest of the machine. While a Virtual Machine Hypervisor...
Category: Data Center
Server Virtualization packs applications in Virtual Machine (VM) format and runs multiple applications in a single server. So how is networking handled in a scenario where there are multiple VMs in...
PCoIP, developed by Teradici (and licensed by desktop virtualization vendors) is a useful protocol that enables high-definition and 3D graphics (among other demanding applications) without lag in centralized DV scenarios....
I guess you are familiar with Desktop Virtualization. Using it, companies can host (and process) user’s desktop sessions in their data centers, and just send the desktop image to the...
What are Zero Clients? You maybe familiar with a thin client used in desktop virtualization. There is also something called as Zero Client, also used in desktop virtualized scenarios. In a Zero...
Let’s admit it – Data Centers are tremendous energy guzzlers. Anti-Green. But, you wouldn’t have much of a reason to think about improving the energy efficiency of data centers just...
Server Virtualization has enabled IT departments to run multiple applications and multiple Operating Systems within a single server. This not only reduced the total number of servers required (and networking,...
Photo: Derrick Coetzee. Published under this creative commons license. Instead of buying a separate rack, servers, storage appliances, networking switches, etc and integrating the hardware/firmware to work with each other,...
It is not uncommon to see enterprise companies host their applications/data on multiple data centers, private & public clouds. Geolocation is a technology that helps companies determine accurate location of...
Let us look at the advantages of Precision air conditioners over comfort/standard air conditioners for data centers and server rooms. Of course, people use precision air conditioners (or something better)...
Facebook’s Open Compute Project seeks to open source data center hardware design and evolve a common set of standards for scale-computing applications. Open-source concepts are popular with the software industry,...
Conventional Data Center networks (Limitations) Conventional Data Center networks have 3-4 tires like access layer, aggregation layer, core layer, services layer, etc. Each layer duplicates many of the IP/Ethernet packet...
IOV or Server Input – Output Virtualization is a technology that enables the Input/Output Interface components like NIC/HBA to be removed from physical servers and consolidated using a separate device....
One of the advantages of implementing a Private Cloud in your organization, is the possibility to build a solid Disaster Recovery strategy using Public Cloud infrastructure. Read on, to find...