The benefits of virtualization apply to the IT enterprise and industrial automation including:

• Application load-balancing.
• Decreased energy consumption and footprint.
• Extended lifecycles and more.
• Hardware consolidation.
• High availability.
• Improved uptime.
• Increased fault tolerance.
• Rapid disaster recovery.

A complete virtual solution consists of software and hardware components.

Typical virtualization architectures consist of physical components including servers (hosts), storage arrays, Ethernet networks, a management PC, and desktop clients.

Considerations for Designing a Solution

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Cloud services promise economic benefits, scalability and flexibility. They can trigger perceived risks for companies that are concerned about security, data protection, reliability and availability.

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Here are a few ideas for ways to optimize data center power:

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“I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” ~ Wayne Gretzky

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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is planning to invest $250 million into a new data center in Finland decreasing Microsoft’s latency and expanding service capabilities for their European customers. Microsoft’s modular datacenter architecture works with the climate in Finland.

This is the second major international data center in the country. Google is building a data center from a repurposed wood pulp plant in Finland.

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Here are a few of the largest trends emerging in the effort to conserve energy:

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The Department of Energy (DOE) National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center is dedicated to independent analysis of advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies.

Learn more about National Fuel Cell Technology Evaluation Center

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1,000 consumers participated in the online survey, conducted by traffic management vendor Vasona Networks.

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In this article, Steve Conley, Red Sox IT Director, discusses how Fenway has advanced Wi-Fi.

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Web Biotechnology, based in Singapore, created a new type of heart monitor utilizes cloud to collect medical data in time and could shorten patient hospital stays.

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