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OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, sets the guidelines to ensure a safe workplace for your company’s employees. I’m sure you would agree that it is critical to have contingency plans in place for emergencies. Perhaps there is even a manual outlining exits in case of a fire or safe rooms in the event of an earthquake or tornado. Some companies dedicate an entire committee charged with the responsibility of keeping the employees safe. But who is keeping your company’s critical data safe? Is your data protected in the event of a natural disaster, human error, hardware failures or software defects? Continue reading →

Hardware Virtualization or “Hypervisor” Technology is the most commonly encountered today and is best represented by Vsphere® by VMware, Inc. It is best understood to represent an operating software layer that allows multiple hosts to run concurrently on the same hardware. Each Virtual machine has it’s own CPU, Memory, I/O, etc. available to it’s operating system. No elements of the operating system are shared and each machine exists as a stand-alone server. The operating system software is unchanged from the traditional approach of a dedicated hardware machine except now multiple machines can share the same underlying hardware resources. Each virtual machine can even run different operating systems. Continue reading →