Virtualization and Cloud Computing

You have to understand where you have come from in order to know where you are going. In this section, you are going to look at how the IT world started in the mainframe era and is now moving toward cloud computing. You’ll also learn why this is relevant to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V.

Computing of the Past: Client/Server

How computing has been done has changed—and in some ways, almost gone full circle—over the past few decades. Huge and expensive mainframes dominated the early days, providing a highly contended compute resource that a relatively small number of people used from dumb terminals. Those mainframes were a single and very expensive point of failure. Their inflexibility and cost became their downfall ...

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