The X Factor: Virtual Server Sprawl
June 19, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
It is hard to find a server maker who is not gung-ho about virtualization these days. This might seem a bit perplexing, given that one of the main marketing drivers for virtual machine partitioning or logical partitioning on modern servers is that by carving up a physical machine into virtual, dynamic slices, customers can do server consolidation on a grand scale, and in theory reduce their footprints. Of course, not everyone is thinking about server virtualization in this manner. At data centers in the financial services sector, for instance, IT departments are operating in a business environment where transaction volumes |