Virtualization

From my experiences at my last workplace, I can appreciate the potential benefits of server virtualization. I worked at a small company that created e-Learning, and most of our data was stored on servers in a small room next to my office. One day during my first year there, I had to help carry two 300+ lb server racks up a flight of 20 stairs to our server room. This room was always about 200 degrees F because of the heat created by the stacks of whirring machines. Our 100-year-old office building was definitely overmatched - having been built when they expected you to maybe plug in one fan per room, not 20 energy-guzzling, heat-expelling servers per room. If virtualization technology could cut down on the heavy, hot machinery in the room next door to me, it is definitely a technology worth exploring.