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19 Feb 2008 | SearchSystemsChannel.com

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Q: What are the data center location considerations?

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Martin MacLeod is an IT consultant based in London with several years' experience deploying and supporting blade servers in volume. He also blogs at bladewatch.com, where he tracks news on blade servers, grids and virtualization. Listen to the rest of Martin's answers on blade server virtualization by downloading our blade server virtualization podcast.
Are we going to virtualize one data center, two or more? Are we looking at business continuity? In which case, are we looking at a virtual solution with two virtual farms that can each host a system? How we hang all that together is important.

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