Stan Beer
Sunday, 27 July 2008 08:57
Business IT -
Technology
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That certainly covers the cost savings angle but what
about the rest? According to Kemp, security and manageability become
largely non-issues in the consumer environment.
"Looking at it from an IT perspective, when we
start talking about disaster recovery and so on, the fact is most home
users do not do those type of business processes so they're willing to
take the risk that their stuff is not really high availability," he
says.
"People don't back-up their data every day like a business process
should dictate. So if they're willing to look at consolidating their
desktops onto one place, and they're not too concerned with protecting
their data - even though they could with our platform - to me it's a
quite easy segue as a father, mother or partner to ask why am I buying
again a new PC every two years when I could just create a new image and
buy a thin client terminal."
Kemp believes that virtualisation for the home could easily become a
plug and play process with the current level of sophistication of
ordinary home users and available products.
"This is so easy to set up that my 10 year old daughter was able to set
it up on her own so to have an adult set it up would also be easy.
These days people set up their DSL routers all the time so things such
as IP address and DNS are not as foreign as they used to be. On today's
networks most of that is set up for them anyway via DHCP," he says.
"So it's simple just to plug in your server to your existing DSL
network, then it's just a simple matter of going to the web console and
using the wizards to build yourself an image. You only have to do that
once because you could store that image and use that as a provisioning
for the rest of the family.
"You then you can start looking for consistency in what's being
deployed in your household. security, troubleshooting, the ability to
take snapshots and roll back and all those kind of features really does
make that a viable platform for home use. This is something that still
hasn't percolated down to the consumer market."
So why hasn't home network virtualisation caught on? Please read on to page 3
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