CUNA council offers virtual server study.The CUNA Cuna Chibchan-speaking Indian people who once occupied the central region of what is now Panama and the neighbouring San Blas Islands and who still survive in marginal areas. In the 16th century they lived in federated villages under chiefs who wielded considerable power. Technology Council is offering a white paper on server virtualization (1) Running applications in separate, isolated partitions within a single server. The "virtual machine" method can run different operating systems simultaneously, whereas the "OS virtualization" method runs applications for only one operating system (see virtual machine and OS , the practice of splitting one computer server into multiple functioning machines. The white paper looks at the benefits of virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , citing examples such as $171 million Heritage CU in Madison, Wis., going from 16 server boxes to two host machines and $3.5 billion Mid-Atlantic Corporate FCU FCU Federal Credit Union FCU Florida Credit Union FCU Fan Coil Unit FCU Fuel Control Unit FCU Flight Control Unit FCU Flexor Carpi Ulnaris FCU Familial Cold Urticaria FCU Fire Control Unit FCU Fused Connection Unit FCU Flow Control Unit in Middletown, Pa., going from 100 to eight. CUNA's "Technology and Spending Report" said nearly 70% of the credit unions of $200 million or more that it surveyed said they were planning to use virtual server technology within the next three years. The paper studies various models of virtualization delivery. Related topics, including storage-area networks and desktop virtualization, also are included. CUNA offers more than 200 white papers free to council members and at $50 each to nonmembers. They are available at www.cunacouncils.org. |
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