TECHNOLOGY Adecade ago they were counting them all out. Now they are counting the blades and servers back in again, as the trend to distributed computing falters and the datacentre reclaims its central position in enterprise information processing.
The talk around the water cooler is of centralised control and virtualisation – using the power of modern processors to run many operating systems and applications on a single machine. Citrix, a maker of thin client software, and VMware, a specialist in virtualisation, are much in fashion.
