Review “Packed with case studies, in this new era of new devices and applications, this book is well worth reading.” (Bookviews.com, July 2008) “The authors coin a term, “virtual distance”, to refer to the feelings of separation engendered by communicating by e-mail, instant messaging, audio conferencing and other tools. If you’ve ever had a misunderstanding [...]

Blade server systems and virtualization are key building blocks for Next Generation Enterprise Data centers Blades offer modular, pre-wired, ultra high-density servers (up to 10x traditional servers) with shared components (power, cooling, switches) – reducing complexity and cost, and improving flexibility, availability, manageability, and maintainability Virtualization enables consolidation of physical servers by allowing many virtual [...]