Making the case for a virtualized hardware appliance

As Data Center infrastructures become more virtualized, the desire for virtualized network services increases. We see 2 types of offerings:

1. virtual appliances delivered in a VM image, such as the Netscaler VPX from Citrix
2. hardware appliances that can be virtualized, such as Cisco ACE or ASA

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Another Amazon EC2 story

Looks like HotPads.com has abandoned traditional hosting and moved into Amazon’s elastic compute cloud (EC2). This is a trend that I’ve been following in the web space. (more…)

A video summary of Sever Virtualization

Came across this today and thought I’d pass it on. It’s a video of virtualization for novices posted on YouTube.