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Virtual Server Sprawl: FUD or FACT?

At Interop this week, security experts have begun sounding the drum regarding the security risks of virtualization and reminding us that virtual server sprawl magnifies that risk because, well, there...
Published Oct 01, 2008
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@MilesZS

 

 

I see what you're saying. When you string the excerpts together it becomes much clearer. Unfortunately, the excerpts in the original article aren't anywhere near each other, and the wording makes it ... fuzzy.

 

 

Thanks for pointing it out. That makes things a bit more clear - at least in terms of what the Forrester Research is saying. As is often the case, part of the problem is the use of the stats to promote an idea, not the statistics themselves.

 

 

 

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