Al Gore's recent movie An Inconvenient Truth sounds the alarm on global warming. Being exceptionally high consumers of electricity, data centers contribute to the problem. The U.S. Department of Energy states that data center energy use can be a hundred times higher than a typical commercial building's energy use.
Microsoft is a huge company with a vast number of products. Licensing can be, to say the least, confusing. The virtualization environment has been particularly challenging in obtaining clarification around licensing. This is probably due, in part, to the fact that Microsoft has previously not viewed virtualization as an alternative to physical computing....
The disaster recovery department of one of the largest U.S. banks has some very colorful charts that specify the following: 24-hour recovery for their "A" application, 48-hour recovery for their "B" applications, 72-hour recovery for their "C" application, and so on...
recently stopped at a Jack in the Box drive-through and was pleased to learn that they had a vegetarian burger available that evening. I ordered the sandwich and drove off. It was only later that I discovered that the vegetarian burger was simply a normal hamburger minus the beef patty-in other words, just buns.
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Interested in jumping onto the virtualization bandwagon but still have concerns about the licensing implications? You're not alone. Microsoft's policies on licensing in virtualization environments are complex, to say the least -- but times are changing...
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