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VIRTUALIZATION
CHANGES
EVERYTHING
Throughout the natural world, when a creature confronts a
challenging situation, its hair stands on end or its quills are ex-
tended, or its cheeks puff out. Animals that normally walk on
all fours stand upright and snap their jaws. It’s the oldest trick
of evolution: make yourself appear larger than you are, and
perhaps a rival, a predator, or some other form of intractable
problem will go away.
I’ve already referred to the illusion of endless power that
the cloud data center imparts. It has a whole raft of tricks to
achieve this larger-than-life result, but in challenging cloud sit-
uations, it’s virtualization that leverages servers to make them
appear larger than they really are.
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