This week's lectures were interesting. I could tell that Professor Olsen really liked the subject as well. It built upon the storage knowledge from weeks 2 and 3 and gave some specific hardware and software examples of ways to meet computing needs for business.
Regarding thin client virtualization, I believe our company uses a form of this for our funeral directing software. All of the data and software is kept on servers in our main offices in Houston, Texas. We log into client computers with our personal login to access the system. If there is any loss of connectivity to the Internet we lose all functionality with the program, which happens very rarely. Other than the client machines used specially for video and sound production, there is very little memory needed locally to run the system.
I really got a lot out of Professor Olson's descriptions of how hardware would be setup for Hierarchical Storage Management, and Storage Area Networks to insure redundancy and safe and efficient data storage.
I also think that in many businesses thin client virtualization could be the answer for the efficient use of data storage. Purchasing storage as needed and being able to divide the space needed for clients in more exact quantities sounds ideal.
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