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aval
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Posted - 01/14/2011 :  4:39:23 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
What OSes are used in the cloud?

All kinds I suppose.

But with respect to virtualization, which is also a "hot topic", are these servers running something like either VMWare ESX/i or Hyper-V, with a bunch or guests running on top, and managed with vCenter or the MS equivalent (or even something more fancy given the number of servers) or...

Are they running OSes like Windows Server Datacenter right on the metal?

All depends?

Is there a trend?

Just curious.

A couple months ago I heard Ron Bowman speak and that kindled my interest in this. This wasn't the conference but he talked about the same things (cost, location, etc.):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4GgMVNIlHU

Interesting to see where they are putting data centers (Iceland, Greenland, to cool with water from glaciers, stuff like that).

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Posted - 01/14/2011 :  4:41:52 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
More on Iceland:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd5twI6JUYQ&
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Posted - 01/15/2011 :  07:03:40 AM  Show Profile  Visit Mark Minasi's Homepage  Reply with Quote
David --

That's the whole idea with Azure; it's a modified version of the Windows kernel built for the cloud. They've done similar stuff with SQL and are working on a cloud-ified AD.

And Iceland is an AMAZING place. Not to be missed in this lifetime.
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