What Does Virtualization Mean Today?
If you visited Fiber Mountain's headquarters in Cheshire, Connecticut, and stopped a member of our technical team in the hall to ask for a definition of virtualization, you would probably hear something along the lines of, "putting many virtual machines in the same host hardware." That is certainly an accurate description, but on this blog and through Fiber Mountain's entrance into the networking marketplace, I want to extend that definition.
Climbing to New Network Heights Atop Fiber Mountain
As we increase pressure on our networks with bandwidth-consuming video, devices and complex applications, we are forced to employ larger and more powerful hardware in our data centers to support them. We build bigger switches and add more servers, cables and patch panels. We use more power to cool our equipment and occupy more space to house it.