Fadi Nasser

Virtualization adoption in the desktop and datacenter space has been rampant over the past few years given the popular benefits that the technology has to offer. Classical virtualization benefits are numerous and result in savings on many levels. The ability to host multiple server environments, each as a virtual machine, on a single physical blade yields a measurable reduction in hardware costs. This in turn reduces operational expenditures because of the improved node count, simpler deployment, and reduced power consumption, thus eliminating symptoms that otherwise plague today's datacenter space. These are some of the benefits that this first wave of virtualization has introduced in its wake, enough to explain the explosive appeal that the technology has encountered in the marketplace. Naturally, and as with every promising technology innovation, it's just a mat... (more)