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A Brief History of Virtualisation [Kindle Edition]

Liam Proven
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If you've ever wondered what time-sharing, multics and Unix have to do with today's hypervisor technologies, or why you should consider the global environment when planning your virtual machine strategy, they you'll want to read The Register's A Short History of Virtualisation on Kindle.

El Reg's Liam Proven takes us from IBM's early experiments, through the rings of Intel and right up to today's battles between Microsoft, VMWare et al.

Whether you want to convince your board that virtualisation will save your datacentre, or explain to colleagues why it's nothing new at all and you've been doing that sort of thing for years actually, A Short History of Virtualisation is the place to start.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 831 KB
  • Print Length: 30 pages
  • Publisher: The Register (15 Dec 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006MSECAS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #203,414 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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2.0 out of 5 stars Rambling and poorly formatted 19 Jan 2012
By J. Bond VINE™ VOICE
Format:Kindle Edition
Initially this proved to be an okay read, giving an insight into the complex emergence of virtualization from engineering tool on mainframes, to academic insight, to commercial success. But soon the text starts to ramble, at the half way mark you are treated to a discourse about the costs and envrionmental benefits of down sizing? Sorry, is this about Virtualization, or is the author trying to sell on their own particular style of consultation to potential clients?

The text continues to ramble, taking us on a discussion about multi-core/multi-thread processing, and how people are sold "more machine" than they need for the purposes they use it. A noble crusade, but not one for this text.

The format of the book is also somewhat poor, there are multiple typographical mistakes, and clearly the text hasn't been proof read to the nth degree. The text formatting is also messy, I wish it were in justified mode for example. I also wish that section headings were not so randomly thrown in.

All in all, a good first quater, but the rest of the book is a mess, even at this low price I'd not recommend this as a book to introduce you to the history of virtualization, nor as a refeerence to cite when trying to persuade your IT Director to spring the cash for a new server.
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