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Hypervisors are not the Droids You Seek

Joe Onisick (@JoeOnisick), October 28, 2011May 18, 2020

Long ago, in a data center far, far away, we as an industry moved away from big iron and onto commodity hardware. That move brought with it many advantages, such as cost and flexibility. The change also brought along with it higher hardware and operating system software failure rates. This change in application stability forced us to change our deployment model and build the siloed application environment: One application, one operating system, one server….

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