Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, has over 15 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company.
The flexibility, efficiency, and reduced cost of ownership virtualization
provides makes it extremely compelling to large and small organizations
alike. Increasingly IT organizations are contemplating virtualization across
all platforms.
As this trend makes its way deeper and deeper into the data center,
organizations are starting to leverage the fact that virtualization also
lifts many of the constraints that govern which platform an application needs
to run on. Different types of applications possess different workload
“personalities” and these heavily influence how well an
application will perform on a given virtualization model.
Some workloads possess certain characteristics that make them ideal for
consolidation onto mainframes. In this article I’l... (more)
The fact that virtualization can have a positive impact on total cost of
ownership is not new to those familiar with designing and managing IT
environments. Many of the contributors to these cost savings, such as
reduction in physical hardware and the corresponding savings in power and
cooling, are key drivers for virtualization initiatives, and feature
prominently in many ROI models. Bu... (more)
Andrew Hillier, CTO and co-founder of CiRBA, has over 15 years of experience in the creation and implementation of mission-critical software for the world's largest financial institutions and utilities. A co-founder of CiRBA, he leads product strategy and defines the overall technology roadmap for the company.
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