Open source virtualisation - worth the wait
Open source may have had a late start in the realm of enterprise virtualisation, but the meticulous and attentive development of this technology has led to better products in the long run. Not only is open source virtualisation now fully enterprise-ready, but it offers greater cost-savings and more flexibility that its proprietary counterparts.
What is virtualisation?
Virtualisation allows you to run multiple operating systems within a single physical machine. Traditionally, your firewall and mail server, for example, would be run on their own dedicated physical servers. However, with today’s processing power being as powerful and cheap as it is, some machines run at no more than about 10% utilisation, ultimately making the machines run at a waste of capacity.
The open source benefit
With open source virtualisation, you can do pretty much anything you can do with commercial products, but with added advantages.
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