Technology
Cloud computing and virtualization go hand-in-hand. Virtualization separates the OS/application from the underlying commodity hardware. Yet today’s “clouds” still represent collections of small compute islands; users can choose their “cloud” as some fraction of a size of a standard server, but nothing larger. An enterprise using cloud computing as an IT infrastructure strategy needs true On Demand agility and scalability, where the size of the server provided by the cloud can be easily changed on-the-fly, and should have no limits. This session addresses how networking infrastructure, virtualization and commodity servers are evolving to enable On Demand IT for the cloud, finally enabling the dynamic data center.