One of the biggest implications of the "virtualization phenonmenon" is on the grip that Microsoft has traditionally had on the IT hardware industry.
The scenario that is slowly unfolding is that : "Businesses will keep their existing XP or Windows 2000 operating systems, and avoid an upgrade to Vista. Instead, these businesses will use browsers to shift their e-mail, chat, instant messaging, virtual conferencing, encryption, audio, calendar, document management, backup storage, disaster recovery and security services into a service-based environment. The advantage of this approach is that it allows for piecemeal migration out of the Microsoft fold. It involves minimal risks because the migration can always be reversed.
Many of the elements of this approach are already shaping up. For instance, Google Apps, for an annual fee of $50, makes available e-mail, calendar, spreadsheets, document management, a Web-page creator, blogs, instant messaging and audio. It is likely that additional features will become available."
In this new scenario - all that customers will need is a thin client, with only a browser, instead of a fat client with more than 50 million lines of Microsoft code.
Interesting times…..read on…..
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When u shift almost everything out of your Computer on to Online or in a distant server, what are the failsafes u conisder in terms of security?
1. hackers/viruses? they will focus on the servers than the user-end access modules!
2. a simple nuclear explosion triggers EMP (Electro Magentic Pulses or Waves), obilerating all data stored in hard Disks etc. what sort of protection do the client virtualization industry take to safeguard against such a scenario?
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Hi Rosh - traditionally and from a IT administration point of view, its always been easier to secure data at the server end than at the client end. Today storage technology and related security technologies have advanced to a stage where - getting to enterprise level data stored on SAN or NAS boxes is almost impossible for virus/hackers. Re the scenario of an EMP obliterating data - frankly, IT roll-outs really don't take into concern such extreme situations. The only solution for such scenarios really is disaster recovery locations created and located in a different part of the world.
Hi Rodrigo - thanks for your comment - but buddy, i don't understand the language you have written in :-).... do drop in a line in english if you can.
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