Comments on: Will virtualization end world hunger, bring down gas prices…? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/ Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:45:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: ChandlerD http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/#comment-146 ChandlerD Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:31:49 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/#comment-146 World hunger has been a continuous problem over the last hundred years, and it has been exacerbated in some places during the last fifty years – like in Haiti. Citizens of this island nation in the Caribbean have been resorting to eating dirt cakes, literally packing dirt into cookie size shapes and eating them, exposing them to all sorts of toxins and potential infections. Just last month, there was a resolution that went before the United Nations over whether or not food was a basic human right. Nearly every member voted for it – seven members were absent – and the final vote came in at 180 – 1. Only one country opposed the measure, and that country is one that is in no position to say anything, being that over 10% of its citizens live in poverty – wonder whom? The United States of America was the sole nation to vote against the idea that human beings have the fundamental human right to food. Now, there are obviously good reasons why the US delegate voted it down – something about the government not liking the wording of the resolution – but it still happened. Just be thankful this new year that you have options like payday loans, and options like whether to go to Safeway or Albertsons. For more about the UN and world news, read this article at the <strong><a title="Some can't get enough to eat this Christmas, be thankful if you have food and access to payday loans" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2008/12/23/some-cant-get-enough-to-eat-this-christmas-be-thankful-if-you-have-food-and-access-to-payday-loans/" rel="nofollow">payday loans</a><strong> blog. World hunger has been a continuous problem over the last hundred years, and it has been exacerbated in some places during the last fifty years – like in Haiti. Citizens of this island nation in the Caribbean have been resorting to eating dirt cakes, literally packing dirt into cookie size shapes and eating them, exposing them to all sorts of toxins and potential infections. Just last month, there was a resolution that went before the United Nations over whether or not food was a basic human right. Nearly every member voted for it – seven members were absent – and the final vote came in at 180 – 1. Only one country opposed the measure, and that country is one that is in no position to say anything, being that over 10% of its citizens live in poverty – wonder whom? The United States of America was the sole nation to vote against the idea that human beings have the fundamental human right to food. Now, there are obviously good reasons why the US delegate voted it down – something about the government not liking the wording of the resolution – but it still happened. Just be thankful this new year that you have options like payday loans, and options like whether to go to Safeway or Albertsons.

For more about the UN and world news, read this article at the <strong><a title="Some can't get enough to eat this Christmas, be thankful if you have food and access to payday loans" href="http://personalmoneystore.com/moneyblog/2008/12/23/some-cant-get-enough-to-eat-this-christmas-be-thankful-if-you-have-food-and-access-to-payday-loans/" rel="nofollow">payday loans</a><strong> blog.

]]> By: Shenning http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/#comment-102 Shenning Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:30:09 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center-automation/will-virtualization-end-world-hunger-bring-down-gas-prices/#comment-102 I share your optimism on the power and possibilities of virtualization technology, however, while virtualization certainly can do great things for data centers especially in terms of cost savings, it can also make potential problems more difficult to uncover and resolve, due to the complexity that this technology adds to an already complex data center. In the non-virtualized world, IT Operations is already up against the wall with respect to systems management, yet virtualized environments considerably complicate the problem. Now you are dealing with the host server and O/S, the hypervisor, the virtual machines, the guest O/S in each virtual machine and the applications running in the VMs. Ouch... Figuring out the source of problems was hard enough in the non-virtualized world. Simply throwing more people at the problem as Operations has done in the past is not going to scale with this level of complexity, and IT budgets, which are already 70+% labor and flat won't support that anyway. That is why IT executives implementing virtualized production environments need to seriously consider a new breed of systems management solutions that use real time analytics to reduce manual efforts in the problem resolution process and enhance static threshold based monitoring and alerting. These solutions can finally allow IT to get out of reactive firefighting and become truly proactive. I share your optimism on the power and possibilities of virtualization technology, however, while virtualization certainly can do great things for data centers especially in terms of cost savings, it can also make potential problems more difficult to uncover and resolve, due to the complexity that this technology adds to an already complex data center. In the non-virtualized world, IT Operations is already up against the wall with respect to systems management, yet virtualized environments considerably complicate the problem. Now you are dealing with the host server and O/S, the hypervisor, the virtual machines, the guest O/S in each virtual machine and the applications running in the VMs. Ouch… Figuring out the source of problems was hard enough in the non-virtualized world. Simply throwing more people at the problem as Operations has done in the past is not going to scale with this level of complexity, and IT budgets, which are already 70+% labor and flat won’t support that anyway. That is why IT executives implementing virtualized production environments need to seriously consider a new breed of systems management solutions that use real time analytics to reduce manual efforts in the problem resolution process and enhance static threshold based monitoring and alerting. These solutions can finally allow IT to get out of reactive firefighting and become truly proactive.

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