Latest News from Clint Eschberger

Virtualized and Physical Infrastructures

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:15:00 EST

Instead of creating a less complex environment, in many cases virtualization has made it more complex. Many business- and mission-critical applications are just not right for a hypervisor. Other software applications won't even support hypervisors even today.

Virtualization & Small Business: Can Virtualization Help?

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:50:00 EDT

Sometimes I think virtualization, although scary, is a no brainer for medium to large companies. In today's world server sprawl has become a major problem and costs companies a lot of money not only on server hardware, but power, cooling, support, and square footage. On the other side you have small businesses that generally have a different make up. Many do not have data centers and some have no more than a handful of servers. Can virtualization help them? What are the ways that it can benefit them without breaking the bank?

Virtualization: Microsoft's Hyper-V Should Support Other Linux Distros

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:45:00 EDT

In what is a big mistake, in my opinion, Microsoft has chosen to only support Suse Linux in Hyper-V. If they want to truly compete with VMware and other virtualization companies they are going to have to open this up. This does not mean you can not run other distros, however it will not be supported by Microsoft. In today's corporate world that is a death nail for most companies.