The rise of non-Windows operating systems in the enterprise and the easy availability of powerful hardware is killing the “one OS for one box” model. This is a good thing because it allows users to easily work with, test on, and develop for multiple operating systems. And the best way to accomplish this is with virtualization.
The rise of non-Windows operating systems in the enterprise and the easy availability of powerful hardware is killing the “one OS for one box” model. This is a good thing because it allows users to easily work with, test on, and develop for multiple operating systems. And the best way to accomplish this is with virtualization.
You might think that virtualization is just for servers, but you’ll find that virtualization can have a profound impact on the desktop as well. This month, we’ll start diving into practical use cases for virtualization on the desktop and discuss how it’s a key technology for revolutionizing the way that we work with our computers on a day-to-day basis. Server gurus, worry not, as I’ll be digging into virtualization in the datacenter next month.
To fully understand why virtualization is taking hold so quickly in desktop computing, we must first realize the status quo that’s in place now—namely, one OS for one box. In the days before multi-core computing, cheap RAM, big hard drives and, largely, before the Internet, this made a lot of sense; companies standardized on a set of hardware, an OS, and application set, and went on their way.
In today’s world, however, this just doesn’t work. And it’s your fault. Let me explain…
With the rise of non-Windows operating systems in the enterprise, such as Mac OS X and the many flavors of Linux—particularly Red Hat, SUSE, and more recently Ubuntu—and the appearance of cheap, powerful machines from a…
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