Virtualization Explained — Even to Your Mother

Looking for a way to explain virtualization so that even your mother can understand what it’s all about and what the benefits are? Legal Technology Solutions partner Steve Stern has come up with a pretty good analogy to explain a complex topic to an audience unfamiliar with technology, and elaborates in his blog. Stern’s analogy […]

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Jessica Davis
Jul 24, 2009
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Looking for a way to explain virtualization so that even your mother can understand what it’s all about and what the benefits are? Legal Technology Solutions partner Steve Stern has come up with a pretty good analogy to explain a complex topic to an audience unfamiliar with technology, and elaborates in his blog.

Stern’s analogy concerns delivering a speech to an audience. However, the expert speaker is caught in traffic and can’t make it in time. So he sends his speech over to another well-qualified speaker to deliver it. The audience gets the same information (data, applications) delivered by the other speaker (virtualized server). Check it out if you are looking for a way to explain virtualization to your customers.

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