Dan Griffin is a software security consultant in Seattle, Washington. He previously spent seven years at Microsoft on the Windows Security development team. He can be contacted at www.jwsecure.com.
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I think disaster recovery preparation will prove to be the first killer app
for both virtualization and cloud computing for certain types of customer.
I recently successfully imported a physical line-of-business (LOB) server
into Hyper-V. In other words, replacing a physical server with a virtual
machine. That migration is a procedure that lots of businesses, small and
large, will be encountering for reasons similar to my own.
What are those reasons? Well, they’re the usual rationale that favor
virtualization. First, the LOB file server in question was getting old (three
years). And while my firm has standardized on Dell server gear, that one was
a custom job from a local shop. Eliminating old and/or non-standard hardware
helps to drive down support and... (more)
Dan Griffin is a software security consultant in Seattle, Washington. He previously spent seven years at Microsoft on the Windows Security development team. He can be contacted at 
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