Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources

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Cloud Computing Spunje
Published: March 15, 2010Posted in: Clouds, Opinions & Explanations, VirtualizationTags:
Cloud, Virtualization: Wasting IT Resources
Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren’t taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.
Some companies are adopting products from relatively obscure third-party companies to keep resource-wasting virtual machines from eating their storage budgets, or add cloud-based computing resources without administrative overhead they can’t afford.
http://www.cio.com.au/article/337721/cloud_virtualization_wasting_it_resources
The way virtual machines send data to and from storage devices degrades server performance and wastes storage

Despite enhancements on both cloud and virtual computing products, major vendors aren’t taking into account many of the ways even a technology designed to save IT resources can unintentionally waste them.
Some companies are adopting products from relatively obscure third-party companies to keep resource-wasting virtual machines from eating their storage budgets, or add cloud-based computing resources without administrative overhead they can’t afford.

http://www.cio.com.au/article/337721/cloud_virtualization_wasting_it_resources

The way virtual machines send data to and from storage devices degrades server performance and wastes storage

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