Aston University started working with virtualization in 2004, when it kicked off its server consolidation initiative with an initial set of ten finance applications. Growing organically, this initial small environment became the start of a full-fledged private cloud initiative that was ultimately branded as the ISA Cloud Computing Service; (for more info: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/ict/staffguide/cloud/). As their private  [ Read More ]