Virtualization: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

The promise of virtualization technology has convinced some companies to require that most new applications be run immediately on virtual machines. Such a rush to virtual servers is certainly under way at The Hartford Life and Accident Insurance, where “the standard is that everything new comes in on virtual servers,” said Bruno Janssens, senior architect in the company’s infrastructure services group. A dozen of the Simsbury, Conn.-based insurer’s 5,000 servers are currently virtualized, as are some 500 Windows XP client machines, he said.

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