Re: [Nolug] Fwd: Next advanced meeting - VMware - Sep 8'th, 2004

From: Andrew S. Johnson <andy_at_asjohnson.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:38:02 -0500
Message-Id: <200408232338.03050.andy@asjohnson.com>

On Monday 23 August 2004 5:02 pm, Joey Kelly wrote:
> Baton Rouge LUG is giving a hefty presentation. Read below for details.
>
> ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
>
> > Imagine you could move your mission-critical servers from physical machine
> > to physical machine (or blade to blade), and back again, without service
> > interruption. You will see streaming video without glitches, complete
> > financial transactions, maintain secure sessions, query databases -- all
> > while your operating system and applications are shifted onto entirely new
> > and different hardware.
> >
> > The Virtual Infrastructure is Now Reality. VMware software lets you run
> > multiple operating systems simultaneously in secure virtual machines, and
> > move them in real-time with the new VMware VirtualCenter. More than 1.4
> > million users worldwide use VMware software to simplify their computing
> > infrastructure, make it more flexible and more secure, and spend less
> > money maintaining it.
> >
> > Attend this session for a discussion of the virtual infrastructure, an
> > interactive demonstration of VMware VirtualCenter, with plenty of time to
> > ask questions. Learn how companies are using VMware technology to achieve
> > cost-effective server consolidation, disaster recovery, application
> > compatibility, OS migration and more!

<snip>

We've been using this since VMware version 1.0, when it was still $99. Our
first production VM went live in September 2000. Hard to believe that it's
four years old now. Harder to believe some people still aren't doing it.

Andy Johnson
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