[ale] Virtualization

[JK]

Jim Kinney wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Christopher Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is my experience as well.  I think many companies look at
>> virtualization as a way to save
>> money on hardware.
> 
> Virtualization seems like a cool toy. But when I see a business use
> many virtualized machines for daily processes, mission critical
> services, etc, it just screams "single point of failure with massive
> consequences".


I'm just doing development and testing, and I'd rather have to
worry about backing up one system than five.  Deployed systems
will get dedicated hardware.

-- Joe

-- 
I do not particularly want to go where the money is -
  it usually does not smell nice there. -- A. Stepanov