On 04/19/2017 02:50 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 04/19/2017 02:47 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
For my business I have a cloud network with a robust backup and recovery process, multiple server OS's. It has proven to be faster, cheaper to support and more reliable than physical servers over time.
I forgot to address this part. They are still "physical servers"...just SOMEONE ELSE'S.
Technically they're virtual (on physical that can be swapped dynamically). That can present some interesting challenges unto itself.
...and technically they're physical servers underneath. (I don't run much of anything on bare metal either, other than hypervisors!)
Very much so, there is no virtual without the physical but many of the customers now purchase the virtual and it doesn't live where they think it lives. Which is now basically any data center in the world. BTW, much of the LTE network is now virtual (functionality has shifted out of having specific device, when general will do). Still not possible to make antenna or transport vitual (though you can make the upper layers virtual). Overall I like the idea of virtual, but I bet the regulatory side is a nightmare. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies