Research: Virtualising mission-critical apps - part 2

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John Leonard examines the technical and institutional hurdles to the virtualisation of core business systems

In part one of this research we looked at how, as a consequence of their fundamental importance to the enterprise, mission-critical applications have tended to remain stubbornly attached to bare me...

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