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Benchmarking & Virtualization

Our industry for a couple of decades has been limited in discussions regarding the benchmarking of operating system products, database products, and office suites. The Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) required by vendors before they will allow the loading of new products means that those who know can not further our profession by sharing that knowledge on Blogs and in the press and more importantly alert us and the general public to poor products, products that need more time in the oven, and rip offs. I have long believed that an NDA makes the professional an employee of the company requiring it but that is another topic.

With virtualization comes easy benchmarking. Linux at the base ensures that the hardware gets utilized to its maximum potential. This is owing to Open Source which makes it possible for hardware vendors to write code that will take advantage of firmware and other hardware innovations, like multi processors and multi core. Virtualization allows benchmarking of various operating system products and the applications running under them. So no longer is information like superiority of an older operating system product to the newer "improved" one invisible to professionals or early adopters. Some of those benchmarks will end up as articles read by management. There is so much good in this.

With virtualization it becomes possible for even small shops to benchmark. And with a product like Ghost. The virtual may become the physical.

Posted by: mighetto   Posted on: 08/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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