Jurrie van den Breekel is a product marketing manager at Spirent Communications and serves as market segment lead for the company’s Enterprise and Data Center switching test solutions. Previously he served as a technical marketing manager where he was responsible for the market development of Spirent’s Performance Analysis Broadband division in the EMEA region. Jurrie has also held a variety of other positions at Spirent. Prior to joining Spirent in 2000, he spent several years at the Dutch-based system integrator, TrueCom, as product manager for telecom test systems.
It's no secret what's driving the move to virtualization in data centers. The
demand for new and expanded software systems is growing, but the geographic
and carbon footprint required for scaling underutilized dedicated servers is
too costly on many levels.
This issue has led to the maturation of the virtual server, where increased
reliability and stability means reduced risk, making virtualization of the
data center a viable solution. Virtualization makes it possible to replace
physical servers running at 10 percent capacity with fewer, more powerful
servers running at 60 percent capacity or more.
Figure 1: A-Network cloud connected to four servers running one process each.
B-Network cloud connected to two servers each running many processes.
Legacy virtualization platforms support up to four or eight virtual machine
(VM) instances per physical server. New virtuali... (more)
Jurrie van den Breekel is a product marketing manager at Spirent Communications and serves as market segment lead for the company’s Enterprise and Data Center switching test solutions. Previously he served as a technical marketing manager where he was responsible for the market development of Spirent’s Performance Analysis Broadband division in the EMEA region. Jurrie has also held a variety of other positions at Spirent. Prior to joining Spirent in 2000, he spent several years at the Dutch-based system integrator, TrueCom, as product manager for telecom test systems. 
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