Virtual Infrastructure in Cloud Computing Just Passes the Buck

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Published: December 4, 2009Posted in: Amazon, Amazon's Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2), Business Intelligence, Clouds, Opinions & Explanations, VirtualizationTags:
Virtual Infrastructure in Cloud Computing Just Passes the Buck
There are many good reasons to go down the virtual infrastructure road. The illusion that it’s cheaper than dedicated hardware solutions is not one of them.
I was reading an interesting predictive article on WAN optimization that contends that virtualized WAN optimization controllers (WOC) are, well, just better than sliced bread. One of the reasons why the author opined this way was presented as the great benefits of horizontal scalability (linear) in cloud computing environments.
http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/1206590
I’m not arguing against virtual infrastructure in theory

There are many good reasons to go down the virtual infrastructure road. The illusion that it’s cheaper than dedicated hardware solutions is not one of them.

I was reading an interesting predictive article on WAN optimization that contends that virtualized WAN optimization controllers (WOC) are, well, just better than sliced bread. One of the reasons why the author opined this way was presented as the great benefits of horizontal scalability (linear) in cloud computing environments.

http://dotnet.sys-con.com/node/1206590

I’m not arguing against virtual infrastructure in theory

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