A lot of shops I've been working with over the past year or so have looked to save money on hardware maintenance, break/fix costs, administration, and the obvious overhead by virtualizing their servers and dev systems. Typically I see places drop several systems and consolidate on one of their stronger systems running VMWare products, saving hundreds even thousands depending on how they go about it. If you think about it an average 1U DP intel server that is outside of it's original warranty costs between 400-600USD to cover w/ an vendor warranty contract.
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A lot of shops I've been working with over the past year or so have looked to save money on hardware maintenance, break/fix costs, administration, and the obvious overhead by virtualizing their servers and dev systems. Typically I see places drop several systems and consolidate on one of their stronger systems running VMWare products, saving hundreds even thousands depending on how they go about it. If you think about it an average 1U DP intel server that is outside of it's original warranty costs between 400-600USD to cover w/ an vendor warranty contract. Insert shameless plug here: Ask me where to start. ;-) Do I really want to slashdot myself...