Inchoate Curmudgeon

Red Hat CTO elaborates on lofty ‘cloud’ vision discusses the effort Red Hat is making to engage its customer base on Wall Street:

“In terms of engaging its customer base, for example, Red Hat has worked with Wall Street’s financial institutions to simplify data center operations by capturing a single operating system image, including hardware and software. The payoff: IT has only one image to update and manage, which can be deployed across the network, he said. Currently, Red Hat is testing this technology by burning an OS image onto a USB key and using it to boot up servers, desktops and laptops, he said.”

The thing to note that an effective virtualization strategy does not virtualize the existing, diverse landscape, it redeploys into a highly standardized infrastructure with uniform configurations. Furthermore, the effective process involves discovering the 80% solution, the small set of standard virtualization strategies and standards, that meet the vast majority of workload requirements for the target workloads.